How to Protest, With Activists L.A. Kauffman and Charlene Carruthers
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🗓️ 15 June 2020
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
What are our rights when it comes to protesting? How do we protest safely and effectively during a pandemic? We answer these questions and more this week with help from activists L.A. Kauffman and Charlene Carruthers. L.A. is a veteran grassroots organizer with over 35 years of experience in political activism, and has written two books on the topic including her most recent, How to Read a Protest: The Art of Organizing and Resistance. Charlene was a founding national director of the Black Youth Project 100, and is now a part of the Movement for Black Lives (M4BL). She is also the author of Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements.
We also speak with Maryanne Kaishian, Senior Staff Attorney at Brooklyn Defender Services, about knowing our rights, and how to protect yourself legally in case of arrest.
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| 1:12.0 | Today, we're deviating a little bit from our normal style to present you something we think |
| 1:15.8 | will be helpful in the present moment. We take the movement for Black Lives extremely seriously, |
| 1:21.1 | and we've been thinking a lot about what we as the upgrade can do to support it. So we thought, |
| 1:25.5 | in true Lifehacker fashion, let's tackle how to protest. |
| 1:28.7 | For our first interview, our producer, Michaela Hack, will be speaking with author and activist |
| 1:32.4 | L.A. Kaufman. They'll discuss how to prepare for a protest and what to expect. Be very alert |
| 1:37.8 | what's going around you and think about how you can at all times be acting not just to keep yourself |
| 1:43.2 | safe, but to keep those with whom you're |
| 1:45.4 | standing in solidarity safe. After L.A. will be talking with Marianne Cajum, senior staff attorney |
| 1:50.9 | at Brooklyn Defender Services. She walks us through your rights, what to expect if you are arrested, |
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