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Crowd Counting Consortium – Data on Pro-Israeli and Pro-Palestinian Protests in the U.S.
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From City Hall to the streets of Boston, Maya Alper MPP 24 highlights service delivery’s role in promoting democracy
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Crowd Counting Consortium: Three Things the Pro-Palestine Movement Is Not
New Crowd Counting Consortium analysis from Nonviolent Action Lab Program Director Jay Ulfelder sets the record straight on arrests numbers and claims of violence stemming from protests sparked by the war in Gaza.
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Campus Protests and Police Force: An Ethical Framework
In a new essay, Archon Fung looks at this current wave of campus protests and asks if civil disobedience is permissible, and how much disruption should be tolerated at universities today.
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From City Hall to the streets of Boston, Maya Alper MPP 24 highlights service delivery’s role in promoting democracy
By taking a new approach to its digital service delivery methods, Alper believes that Boston can harness democratic innovations to help heal the wounds left by the city’s legacy of racism and disinvestment.
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