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Lessons in resistance from MLK, the 'conservative militant'

  • Written by Christopher Beem, Managing Director of the McCourtney Institute of Democracy, Pennsylvania State University

Just days after President Donald Trump’s inauguration, activists from Greenpeace climbed up a large construction crane near the White House and unfurled a large banner with the single word: Resist.

On Feb. 11, thousands of protesters used their bodies to spell the word “resist” on a San Francisco beach. The next day, at the...

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