I missed a protest on Monday night. I’d hoped to be at the Congressman Don Norcross (D) town hall (one of my students was receiving an award that night and invited me). I was unaware that local activists from NJ Communities United were staging a protest against the Urban Hope Act — a Norcross-sponsored bill … Continue reading Protesting the Democratic Party in a Trump World…
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In my first class, I asked my students what they thought of this video of the protests over the demolition of public housing in New Orleans: They responded that protest needed to be rational to be effective. That protestors were “too emotional” and weren’t appealing to enough facts. The very way these communicated resulted in … Continue reading An Introduction to Local Knowledge…
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