One of the most pressing issues of the twenties in the United States is the brutality employed by law enforcement. Police brutality manifests in many forms. The exacerbation of racial prejudice in the exertion of unchecked authority by municipal police forces since before many of us were born, resulting in hundreds of unnecessary deaths of innocents (George Floyd, Sonya Massey, Breonna Taylor, Amadou Diallo, Sean Bell, Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, Eric Garner, etc.) is the most

Tufekci’s analysis in Twitter and teargas that the repression of protests is a paradoxical dynamic that can at some points in time allow for the flourishing of the given social movement and can also lead to the government’s assumedly desired result of the social movement

Free Nelson Mandela Protest in West Berlin, Wikimedia CHESTERTOWN, MD -- Among our readings for my class "POL 294: Civic Engagement & Political Advocacy", there has been a great deal of disagreement over the necessity of one to convince other peoples of your political positions, and whether it is your personal responsibility to inform others of political issues. Personally, I am inclined to believe that it is necessary and a moral responsibility of people to discuss their pol

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