Protests Go Abroad

You know the stereotype: college students don’t live in the real world. All they care about is themselves and what’s happening on campus. When they protest, it’s always about stuff that affects them. Well, if that were true, we’d have absolutely nothing to tell you in this episode about, say, students organizing against US military intervention in the Middle East, or successfully pushing the university and local government agencies to divest from Apartheid South Africa. Go figure. 

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