10 Tips For Reporting On Protest

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You can read a excerpt below:

“The Johns Hopkins University sit-in was more than a year in the making.  It was in February of 2018 that students began organizing in opposition to the private police force—with the first big protest in early March. Now, after a year of dog-and-pony-show “community” discussions, very little engagement by JHU with those who opposed the police force, and as Baltimore Brew reported, a curious $16k sent Mayor Pugh’s way, students and residents are occupying Garland Hall to keep the pressure on JHU and legislature because well, this private police thing is pretty much a done deal. I was present for the start of the sit-in and have been checking in every few days at least and I’ve been thinking a lot about how most of the press is really terrible at covering protest. Namely, they just lack the knowledge and grammar for protest, so I wrote out these fairly simple tips for covering protest…”

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