Tag / Student protest
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The Improbable Journey of Howard Mechanic
The temperature was in the low 50s in St. Louis on the night of May 4, 1970, but the thousand-plus Washington University students marching towards the rally site were anything but chilly. Earlier that day, the Ohio National Guard shot and killed four unarmed student protesters at Kent State University. They were peacefully demonstrating against…
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What I Learned in a Kenyan Protest
Recently I found myself locked in a shopping mall in the normally-bustling business district of Nairobi. The mall was teeming with large, grim-faced police carrying AK-47s and wearing combat fatigues. The heavy steel security gates had been pulled down and locked and the major street outside was eerily quiet. The bar was mostly empty save…
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