Protest 
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SOURCE: OutHistory
3/28/2023
Historian Marc Stein Launches Database Project to Identify LGBTQ Direct Action and Protest
by Marc Stein
A project dedicating to identifying and cataloguing direct protest actions by LGBTQ advocates fills in significant gaps in our understanding of the geography, scope, targets, and demands of protests through the years.
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3/26/2023
An American Witness to the European Movement Against the Iraq Invasion
by Brian Sandberg
The European Social Forum, held in Florence in November 2002, didn't stop the US invasion of Iraq. But it did usher in an era of pan-european civic action that remains powerful today.
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SOURCE: CNN
3/18/2023
Kendi: "Anti-woke" Part of Backlash Against Antiracist Protest Movements
Critics have charged that Ibram X. Kendi's writing portrays racism as an all-powerful and unchangeable force in American society. He says that, in fact, understanding racism as "constructed" means it can be deconstructed.
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SOURCE: Miami Herald
2/17/2023
Florida Students Plan Walkouts in Protest of Administrators' Cooperation With DeSantis Trans Crackdown
Six colleges are known to have complied with a request by the governor's office for information about health services provided to transgender students, which student leaders say is part of a threat to gender-affirming healthcare in the state.
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SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
2/14/2023
Atlanta's HBCU Students Call on Administrators to Oppose "Cop City"
Students say that the proposed training facility in south Atlanta will prepare more police to engage in paramilitary suppression of protest and denounced statements by administrators pledging support for "Cop City."
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SOURCE: Black Perspectives
2/14/2023
HBCUs and the 1950s Red Scare
by Candace Cunningham
South Carolina officials were able to use the purse strings to coerce public HBCU administrators to expel student activists. When private HBCUs became centers of sit-in organizing, state legislators turned to accusations of Communism.
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SOURCE: New York Times
2/14/2023
The Network Helping Russia's War Resisters Escape
“In a situation where everyone is against you, including your own relatives, who think that you are a traitor and are ready to hang you from the nearest lamppost, I was extremely pleased to discover that there are people who don’t know you at all, who’ve never seen you, and they are ready to help,” said Oleg Zavyalov, 31.
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2/12/2023
Russia's Courageous War Resisters
by Lawrence Wittner
While most Russians have chosen silence in the wake of Putin's harsh anti-dissent measures, and many military-aged men have opted to leave the country, a core of protesters have braved violence and imprisonment to denounce the Ukraine invasion.
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SOURCE: New York Times
1/29/2023
Do French Pension Protests Reveal a Lazy Nation?
by Robert Zaretsky
French workers are among the most productive in Europe, but today's protests over a potential increase in the retirement age show a long tradition of defending the value of leisure as the chance to pursue one's own ends outside of paid labor.
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SOURCE: Truthout
1/30/2023
Refuse a Return to "Normalcy" after Police Killings
by Austin McCoy
Refusing to accept avoidable death as part of American life—from COVID or police violence—is the foundation of change. Americans need to organize a national day of mourning in the form of a work stoppage.
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SOURCE: The China Story
12/19/2022
China's 2022: Protest, Ceremony, and Surprise
by Jeffrey Wasserstrom and William Yang
China's recent oscillations between official ceremonies of authority and insurgent protests presents a complex picture of a Chinese Communist Party struggling to maintain authority despite its formidable mechanisms of surveillance and coercion.
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SOURCE: The China Project
12/7/2022
The 1979 Formosa Incident Sparked Taiwan's Democracy Movement
by James Carter
An explainer of the wave of protests that began on December 10, 1979, that disrupted the one-party authoritarian rule of the Kuomintang in Taiwan.
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SOURCE: New York Times
11/24/2022
Despite Defeat, Iran's Footballers Won
by Golnar Nikpour
Iranian players' show of solidarity with protesters facing government repression has been more important than the results on the pitch.
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SOURCE: CNN
12/1/2022
For Chinese Protesters, Blank Pages are the Punch Line. What's the Joke?
by Christopher Rea and Jeffrey Wasserstrom
To understand the current Chinese protests, consider the nation's traditions of creative, surreptitious, and subversive political humor.
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SOURCE: The Baffler
10/5/2022
Two Years After George Floyd: What Next?
by Austin McCoy
Despite the massive insurgency of 2020, activists struggle as news media amplify reactionary moral panics about history curricula and crime to justify increasing the funding and power of police departments that have seen superficial reforms at best.
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SOURCE: Jacobin
8/28/2022
Recovering the Core Radicalism of the Civil Rights Movement: An Interview with Glenda Gilmore
by Robert Greene II
Cold war histories of civil rights have obscured the key role of communists and other radicals in establishing the economic demands of the movement and the practice of interracial mobilization.
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8/28/2022
The Chicano Moratorium in East LA and Ventura County
by Frank P. Barajas
Chicano Moratorium commemorations continue today in communities in and out of East Los Angeles as they mark a history that centers on the experience of ethnic Mexican and Latinx peoples in the US to inspire and reinspire the young and old, to continue their struggle to realize the ideal of justice for all.
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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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