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If You Were Wondering Why Protest Coverage Seems Fairly Muted, NPR's Public Editor Confirms This is Intentional (lemmy.ml)

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EDIT: Also worth noting that the next nationwide protest date for 50501 is May 1st

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

It's intentional I'm starting to think.

The large groups supporting the Hands Off protests are funded by Neoliberal Super PACS like this one that finances one of the leaders https://www.opensecrets.org/political-action-committees-pacs/indivisible-action/C00678839/summary/2020

I've gone to all the protests so far, and it's a lot of standing around listening to boomer Neoliberals tell us to not be violent but also not do anything else useful. In fact they don't tell the crowds to do anything at all, and nobody under the age of 40 is allowed to speak on stage.