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Hey, Donald Trump: Over 335,000 people are ready to protest if you fire Mueller or Rosenstein

sudshr47 April 13, 2018

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With Special Counsel Mueller and Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein’s firings looking increasingly more likely, our great Congress is so far responding with a collective ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

Ah, checks and balances — we hardly knew ye!

Americans, on the other hand, are far more ready to mobilize if and when the moment comesMoveOn.org and over two dozen activist organizations from across the political spectrum have collected over 335,000 RSVPs for nationwide protests should Mueller or Rosenstein be fired.

While organizers have been planning protests for months, the number of RSVPs has grown in recent weeks, as Trump refuses to cooperate with the Special Counsel. Read more…

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America’s youth finally destroyed slacktivism

sudshr47 March 27, 2018

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Hundreds of thousands of young children, teenagers, parents, and concerned people across the U.S. stepped away from their computer screens and left their houses on March 24, gathering in the streets to protest against gun violence in the March for Our Lives.

It would have been much easier just to sign an online petition or tweet with the march’s trending hashtag — in other words, engage in “slacktivism,” or simple activism efforts that require little action and, ultimately, have little impact. But after 17 people were killed in the Feb. 14 school shooting in Parkland, Florida, these Americans couldn’t sit back and value the convenience of slacktivism over the dire need to go out and create real change. Read more…

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The largest protests in American history are happening now. Expect them to get bigger.

sudshr47 March 27, 2018

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Size matters — at least when it comes to the size of our protests.

Though final count is still being tabulated, researchers Erica Chenoweth and Jeremy Pressman of the Crowd Counting Consortium estimate that over 1.25 million people across the United States participated in Saturday’s March for Our Lives protest, making it one of the largest youth-led protests in American history, at least since the Vietnam War. 

Beyond youth-led protests, March for Our Lives is also poised to become one of the biggest protests, period, in American history, surpassed only by the Women’s March in 2017, where an estimated 4.15 million people participated, and the Women’s March in 2018, where anywhere from 1.6 to 2.5 million people participated domestically.  Read more…

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This comic breaks down student protesters’ rights ahead of National School Walkout for gun control

sudshr47 March 13, 2018

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As students across America prepare to stage a National School Walkout in protest of gun violence on March 14, cartoonist Kai Texel wants to make sure they known their rights.

Texel partered with the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund (CBLDF) and National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC) to launch Be Heard! — a free educational comic book that seeks to inform students of the best practices to carry out while protesting, peacefully assembling, and asserting their First Amendment rights.

The nationwide school and university walkout will take place on the one-month anniversary of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, on Feb. 14.  Read more…

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Jay-Z talks police brutality at concert: ‘It’s a human issue’

sudshr47 November 27, 2017

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If there’s one thing we’ve learned about Jay-Z this year, it’s that he isn’t afraid to use his musical performances as opportunities to discuss serious issues. 

At his Sunday concert in Brooklyn’s Barclays Center the rapper took time to share his thoughts about police brutality and NFL players kneeling before the national anthem — a protest started by Colin Kaepernick over a year ago in response to police brutality and oppression faced by the black community. 

“Protesting, putting our fists in the air ― they have shit to do with the flag,” Jay said about the protests, according to The Huffington Post. “It’s all about injustice. We standing up for injustice.” Read more…

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