Protest

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• 5/17/2020
  

  100 Years of Political Spectacle: Women, Political Protest, and the White House

  by Bernadette Crehan and Susan Liebell

  Like suffrage protesters a century ago, nurses demonstrating at the White House to demand adequate protection for frontline medical workers can win by taking on the President on the grounds of spectacle and social media to shape public opinion. 

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• SOURCE: LA Progressive
  5/6/2020
  

  Let’s Be Inspired by True Past Leadership

  by Walter G. Moss

  Rather than inspiring us Americans to continue our fight against that main evil of our time, the coronavirus, President Trump encourages citizens to “liberate” their states from governors who have had enough sense to follow public-health guidelines that will save lives.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  5/4/2020
  

  Four Students Were Killed in Ohio. America Was Never the Same.

  by Richard M. Perloff

  Fifty years after May 4, public expression of unpopular views remains endemic to democracy. 

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• SOURCE: The Hill
  5/2/2020
  

  Will COVID-19 Radicalize Young People Forever? Don't Count On It

  Gen-Z conservatives do not take for granted that the COVID-19 crisis will lead their peers to left-wing politics. 

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• SOURCE: The Hill
  5/3/2020
  

  Whitmer Says Michigan Protests 'Depicted Some of the Worst Racism and Awful Parts of Our History'

  Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) said protests inside the state Capitol last week, featuring demonstrators with assault weapons, swastikas and Confederate flags, depicted some of the “worst racism and awful parts” of the nation’s history.

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• SOURCE: Salon
  5/3/2020
  

  As with Vietnam in the 1960s, COVID-19 is Exposing Racial Fault Lines in the U.S.

  by Emily L. Quint Freeman

  The author risked prison to try to break the connection between the U.S. war in Vietnam and domestic racism. 

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• SOURCE: Seattle Times
  5/4/2020
  

  50 Years Ago, ‘The Dude’ Didn’t Abide. He Helped Lead Thousands in Protest at UW After Students Shot at Kent State.

  Before inspiring "The Dude," Jeff Dowd was a Seattle activist who led students to block Interstate 5 in Seattle to protest the war in Vietnam and the killing of students by the National Guard at Kent State. 

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• SOURCE: Monthly Review
  4/26/2020
  

  A History Of American Protest Music: Which Side Are You On?

  From the bloody labor struggles of Harlan County, “Which Side Are You On?” made its way into a New York recording studio, and got modified to fit the message of countless underdog protagonists.

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• SOURCE: The New Daily
  4/27/2020
  

  On this Day: Chinese Students March in Pro-Democracy Tiananmen Square Protests

  On this day in 1989, enormous crowds of Chinese students and new-found supporters marched through major cities in China to fight for democratic freedoms.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/22/2020
  

  Earth Day 1970 Was More than a Protest. It Built a Movement.

  by Adam Rome

  How can environmentalists create space for people on the sidelines to ask what a changing climate means for their hopes and dreams? And how can they encourage everyone on the field to do more?

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/21/2020
  

  The Far Right Hates Liberals, Government and the Media — And Now, Quarantines

  by Timothy J. Lombardo

  Protests against social distancing measures are rooted in decades-old anger and mistrust.

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  4/21/2020
  

  The Quiet Hand of Conservative Groups in the Anti-Lockdown Protests

  Groups in a loose coalition have tapped their networks to drive up turnout at recent rallies in state capitals and financed lawsuits, polling and research to combat the stay-at-home orders.

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• SOURCE: Vox
  4/19/2020
  

  What the Anti-Stay-At-Home Protests Are Really About

  They’re part of a Trumpian strategy from some conservative groups to reshape public opinion.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  4/16/2020
  

  Protests Against US Stay-at-Home Orders Gain Support from Rightwing Figures

  Protests against stay-at-home coronavirus rules have gained support from rightwing politicians and media groups in recent days, setting up a battle with scientists and public health leaders who say restrictions are necessary.

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• 12/22/19
  

  China Needs to Change Strategy After Hong Kong Elections

  by Kevin M. Shanley

  With the depth of dissatisfaction in Hong Kong now made patently clear at the ballot box, China and Xi now face a difficult choice. Will it double down on repression or listen to the people and choose a new course that will require some compromise?

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• SOURCE: Boston Globe
  12/9/19
  

  Hundreds of scholars protest Harvard's decision to deny tenure to Latinx studies professor

  García Peña's case has become a rallying cry for Harvard students and alumni who have been pushing the university to establish an ethnic studies department for nearly 50 years.

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• 12/8/19
  

  The Power of the 2017 Congressional Recess

  by Leah Greenberg and Ezra Levin

  Leaders got involved because the country had fallen into the hands of a vile, dangerous bully. They were not going to put up with harassment in their own communities.

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• 11/10/19
  

  Echoes of the 1969 Vietnam War Protests 50 Years Later

  by Jim Castagnera

  "As I watch events unfolding in Washington today, I recall the river of candles flowing up Fifth Avenue fifty years ago. The more things change, the more they remain the same.”

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  11/1/19
  

  The Spirit That Brought Down the Berlin Wall Lives On

  by Robert Cohen

  Bloodless revolutions from Armenia to Lebanon are about ending the fatalism corrupt rule engenders.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  11/5/19
  

  The History Behind the Guy Fawkes Masks and Protest

  by Sara Barrett

  All around the world, protesters wear Guy Fawkes masks to conceal their identity in service of a cause.