American history and American culture are both completely intertwined with protest and rebellion. To protest something that you see as injustice in order to fix that injustice is among one of the most patriotic actions you can take. However, that doesn’t mean all protests are constructive or useful. If not handled carefully, protests can easily explode into violence, resulting...
Oftentimes, the Super Bowl halftime show is memorable for rather innocuous reasons, such as Janet Jackson’s wardrobe malfunction in 2004 or Katy Perry’s uncoordinated left shark in 2015. However, in 2016 Beyonce changed the game and used her performance as an opportunity to promote the Black Lives Matter movement and criticize the increasing incidences of police brutality.
She did...
On Wednesday, Feb. 1, hundreds of students assembled at UC Berkeley (UCB) to protest a speaking event planned by the school’s chapter of the College Republicans, which was to feature Milo Yiannopoulos, a major player in the so-called “alt-right” and editor for the right-wing Breitbart News. After these protests ended up degenerating into riots, which resulted in significant property...
Writer: Anonymous
I congratulate the student senate on its Wednesday, Feb. 1 vote banning the sale of Sabra hummus! Thank God the 13 students in the senate took such a brave and consequential step against chickpea paste. I was especially pleased that the senate voted for the ban to express solidarity with the Palestinian people and to recognize their suffering....
Last week’s fiery events at Berkeley ignited a new debate over the drawbacks and downfalls of protesting. Armchair activists, safe behind their keyboards, stick their nose up and declare protests to be a nuisance or claim that these riots have somehow discredited any peaceful opposition to the “alt-right” and the Trump administration. These are the same people who said,...
Well, it seems that either a sense of deja vu is flooding the nation, or we’ve traveled back in time. Get your aprons and your saddle shoes ready ladies, we’re heading back to the 1950s. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday, Jan. 23 reinstating the Mexico City Policy, a policy that was first instituted in 1984...
Within only two weeks of being sworn in as the first 100 percent artificially flavored president of the United States, Donald Trump has made it abundantly clear that he has an interest in neither clean energy nor the public interest. There is no better example than the reignition of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL).
Months of hard-fought protests on...
Daniel Ruppert-Majer, History major with a European concentration
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The article “Snowflakes melt fast and so will President Obama’s legacy” postulates that “Obama’s presidency was one of the worst this country has seen in a long time.” This is quite a bold claim that the author attempts to back up with a variety of arguments, some less successful than others. The...