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✊ Around the world, we’ve seen more and more protests – and it’s young people who are at the forefront of activism. 📣 Young people are demanding change and presenting solutions. ✊ Even when protests are peaceful, demonstrators face violent repression. 📣 Despite the risks, how and why are young people are taking to the streets? Learn more in our latest report: https://lnkd.in/dG4VU7mF

Brilliant and nuanced analysis, laying bare the misconceptions on the side of campus protesters as well as the Iranian angle. Impeccable summary. Well done, HonestReporting! 👏🏻

What are the implications of the widespread pro-Palestinian protests on U.S. campuses for university policies and free speech? How should universities balance the need for safety with the right to peaceful protest?

A usefully calm and unemotional analysis of current issues in international affairs. Never going to be the whole story, but insightful in itself.

The Double Standard of Protests: Why Criticizing Israel Leads to Different Treatment Explore the double standard in how protests are handled when criticizing Israel compared to other causes. Discover why peaceful protests are met with aggression, arrest, and pepper spray in the context of Israel. Uncover the implications of this discrepancy. #DoubleStandardofProtests #CriticizingIsrael #ProtestTreatment #PeacefulProtests #AggressiveResponse #PoliticalInfluence #EqualityMatters #FreedomOfSpeech #SocialJustice #ProtestRights

Revealed: The Truth About Plants at January 6 Protests We uncover the reality behind the January 6 protests, exposing how some individuals acted as instigators rather than supporters. This investigation reveals the dynamics of protest crowds and the motivations behind disruptors. Join us for a deep dive into this controversial event! #January6 #ProtestDynamics #CrowdBehavior #PoliticalProtests #Instigators #TruthRevealed #InvestigativeReport #PoliticsUncovered #SocialMovements #ProtestAnalysis

Who is behind Hong Kong protests? MintPress News, a US news website, has reported that some groups involved in recent rioting in Hong Kong received significant funding from the National Endowment for Democracy, which it described as "a CIA soft-power cutout that has played a critical role in innumerable US regime-change operations". Although it promotes itself as a "non-governmental organization", the NED's website says it "receives an annual appropriation from the US Congress through the Department of State, to help the US government". "NED's NGO status allows it to work where there are no government to government relations and in other environments where it would be too complicated for the US government to work." NED & CIA NED was founded in 1983, when the spotlight on the CIA was so intense that new methods — without a clear connection to the US state — had to be found to promote US interests in foreign political systems. Presenting itself as an independent and private NGO, its function was to take over the CIA's political regime-change programs. "We should not have to do this kind of work covertly. It would be terrible for democratic groups around the world to be seen as subsidized by the CIA," NED President Carl Gershman told the New York Times in 1986. "We saw that in the sixties, and that's why it has been discontinued. We have not had the capability of doing this, and that's why the endowment was created." In 1991, The Washington Post quoted another NED founder, Allen Weinstein, as saying "a lot of what we do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA".

Just talked to ABC news about the Kenyan protests - what caused them, how has the government responded, and what comes next? The video is available free to watch now 📺 https://lnkd.in/ey-NYcT7

Today our panel discusses the recent Israel/Iran conflict and the uptick in protests at US college campuses.