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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. |
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Mara Verheyden-Hilliard's
organization, the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund, pushed the
National Park Service to release permits for protests during the
Inauguration (+).
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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.
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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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