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Student Protest

Protesters shout at each other during a free speech rally with Milo Yiannopoulos at the University of California–Berkeley on September 24th, 2017, in Berkeley, California.

In a new era of protest and de-platforming, conservatives have defensively invested the First Amendment with a transcendent power and moral authority it does not warrant. What happens when equality and free speech are in direct opposition?

By James McWilliams

Students of the National Autonomous University of Honduras (UNAH), gathered under the University Student Movement (MEU), clash with riot police during a demonstration to demand, among other things, the resignation of rector Julieta Castellanos, in Tegucigalpa, on July 25th, 2017. The MEU, which is occupying several buildings of the UNAH, preventing some 50,000 students from attending classes, also demands the cessation of the "criminalization" of protests, the suspension of student hearings, and support to appoint delegates to the University Council, UNAH's main decision-making body.

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Students of the National Autonomous University of Honduras clash with riot police during a demonstration on July 25th, 2017.

By Pacific Standard Staff

Student Protest

Is It Time to Rethink Campus Protest?

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