Civic Action: Protest

Civics 101

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Education, History, Supreme Court, American History, Elections, Democracy, Society & Culture, Government, Civics, Politics, Social Studies

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🗓️ 9 June 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

What is protest, constitutionally? Historically? What is protected, and what is not? And what do you have to know before you grab a sign and go outside? Today we explore the long scope of public dissent from the Boston Tea Party to the current #blacklivesmatter protests. Our guests are Alvin Tillery from Northwestern University, and Bakari Sellers, CNN commentator and author of the recent book My Vanishing Country.

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0:00.0	Civics 101 is supported in part by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
0:03.8	The President has made clear that what we are seeing on American streets is unacceptable.
0:15.0	Violence, looting, and our teeth, wallessness are not to be tolerated.
0:20.7	Plain and simple.
0:22.7	These criminal acts are not protest, they are not statements, these are crimes that harm
0:28.3	innocent American citizens.
0:31.5	I do see a kind of inherent double standard in the way we valorize certain anger, certain
0:39.9	property damage, and if the cause is racial justice or LGBTQ rights or women's rights,
0:49.1	our history has been much more...
0:50.6	Whoa!
0:51.6	This is violating the social order here.
0:54.2	What's going on?
0:55.2	Like, oh my god, they've kicked in a Nordstroms.
0:58.4	We teach literally kindergarteners about the Boston Tea Party.
1:04.8	This is Alvin Tillering.
1:05.8	He's the director for the Center for the Study of Diversity and Democracy at Northwestern
1:10.2	University.
1:11.2	And I research social movements and leadership, and I've been writing about the Black Lives
1:16.8	Matter movement with hopes that some of my research can help them succeed.
1:22.3	I'm Nick Kepady-Jay.
1:23.3	I'm Hannah McCarthy.
1:24.3	And this is Civics 101, the podcast refresher course on the basics of how our democracy
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