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Jan. 6, 2017--A National Press Club Newsmaker on the topic of "How civil disobedience could challenge the Trump Administration" featured attorney Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, executive director of the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund, DC activist Adam Eidinger, and Micah White, a co-founder of Occupy Wall Street.
Mara Verheyden-Hilliard's organization, the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund, pushed the National Park Service to release permits for protests during the Inauguration (+).
Activist Adam Eidinger has been arrested 19 times in the course of various protests.  He is a prominent advocate for cannabis legalization, and his group is planning to "hand out 4,200 joints of legally grown cannabis" on Inauguration Day.  An activist sitting in the front row was busy rolling the joints in plain view during this event.
Micah White, co-founder of Occupy Wall Street and author of "The End of Protest: A New Playbook for Revolution," argued that protests are ineffective.  "There are protests at every inauguration," he stated.  White encouraged "wild experimentation."  He said he believes the way forward is through electoral politics, possibly in the women's movement or in rural voters. 
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