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As protests and demonstrations continue around the country (and world) in response to the death of George Floyd, many have questions about what they should do to safely participate.
Mary Beth Tinker was given detention for wearing a black armband to protest the Vietnam War, leading to the Tinker v. Des Moines case.. Many employers, educational institutions, [5] and professional associations [6] maintain demonstration policies that limit the rights of their members to protest, for instance by restricting them to free speech zones.
It’s important to come to any protest prepared, because having the right supplies could make all the difference if things get tense.
The stated purpose of free speech zones is to protect the safety of those attending the political gathering, or for the safety of the protesters themselves. Critics, however, suggest that such zones are " Orwellian ", [ 3 ] [ 4 ] and that authorities use them in a heavy-handed manner to censor protesters by putting them literally out of sight ...
A growing trend in the United States has been the implementation of "free speech zones", or fenced-in areas which are often far-removed from the event which is being protested; critics of free-speech zones argue that they go against the First Amendment of the United States Constitution by their very nature, and that they lessen the impact the ...
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The 1967 March on the Pentagon was a massive demonstration against the Vietnam War that took place on October 21, 1967. The event began with more than 100,000 protesters at a rally near the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C..
Debates about the right way to protest are hundreds of years old—but, historians say, that focus can often obscure the real story of social change History Shows the Problem With Focusing on ...