Counter-Protests / Counter Protests

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Each episode of Counter Programming will focus on a "counter" of some sort. Today, we learn about Counter protests.

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A counter-protest is a protest action which takes place within the proximity of an ideologically opposite protest.

The purposes of counter-protests can range from voicing opposition to the goal of the other protest to purposefully drawing attention from nearby media outlets away from the other protest toward the counter-protestors' cause to attempting to disrupt the other protest by conflict of a non-violent or violent nature.


Sources:

• https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-400-000-man-march-a-brief-history-of-crowd-counting-1444987800
• https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/march-our-lives-draws-hundreds-thousands-washington-around-nation-n859716
• https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/policy-and-politics/2018/3/26/17160646/march-for-our-lives-crowd-size-count

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