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MiddleFingerMom

(25,163 posts) Fri Jun 21, 2013, 04:27 PM Jun 2013

Non-Violent Protests

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I remember the last one -- I was 13 and thought it was the coolest things EVER.
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It made many FURIOUS -- because "it marred the purity of the Games", of course.
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Of course.
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I still think it was one of the coolest thing ever.
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http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/photos/4490/#igImgId_73426
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Non-Violent Protests (Original Post) MiddleFingerMom Jun 2013 OP

That protest oddly made me more CURIOUS rurallib Jun 2013 #1

K&R! What wonderful and iconic photos! Rhiannon12866 Jun 2013 #2

rurallib

(62,448 posts)

1. That protest oddly made me more CURIOUS

Reply to MiddleFingerMom (Original post)

Fri Jun 21, 2013, 05:52 PM

Jun 2013

In my very white Iowa most people I knew were furious. But I just kept wondering what would make them do something that they knew had to be so in the face of most of America.

Rhiannon12866

(206,016 posts)

2. K&R! What wonderful and iconic photos!

Reply to MiddleFingerMom (Original post)

Sat Jun 22, 2013, 06:40 AM

Jun 2013

Kent State made quite an impression on me, think that was the last incident in the loss of innocence of our nation's youth.

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