Protesting in America

Organizing Protests Wade's World

            New Orleans         Protest and protesting is deeply embedded in America history, whether popular or not.  Professor Gloria Browne-Marshall, a constitutional law and Africana studies professor at John Jay College, part of the City University of New York, channeled her personal history and took on the mammoth task to write A Protest History of …

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Bringing the War Home at the Gas Pump

War

            Baltimore        Many Americans may not have skin in the war with Iran in the way of earlier conflicts during the last one-hundred years, but the distance from the war may be coming home anyway.  A longtime friend and comrade reported gassing up his car in North Carolina yesterday, while trying to get ahead of …

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Renters Being Organized or Co-opted?

New York Rent

            Baltimore        There’s no question New York City’s Mayor Mamdani is a bright comet streaking through the political sky, inspiring passion and hope unlike any politician in decades.  Far away from the big city, we root for his success, read about his daily progress, and wince at every sign of opposition and turmoil.  As easy …

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