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Your First Amendment Right: Protest and the Media
Chamorro, Vanessa S.
Chamorro, Vanessa S.
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Cunningham, Carissa A.
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2025
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"If not a college campus, where else in our society, in this democracy, can we count on large groups of people to do exactly what these college students are doing: paying attention to the world, looking at what is being done in the world.. and coming up with strategies for opposing it if they don't agree with it?"
These are the words of Kent State shooting survivor
Roseann "Chic" Canfora in an interview with NPR in May of 2024. Around the time of Canfora's interview with NPR, students at SUNY Purchase were arrested by police for participating in a peaceful encampment protest on May 2nd 2024. These police were called on students by their own administration for exercising their First Amendment right to protest. The students in question were protesting the US's involvement in the Gaza war, a contentious subject for decades before what has been deemed the start of the war on October 7th 2023. Canfora and other students were protesting for a similar cause, students at Kent state were protesting the US's involvement in the Vietnam War the day of the infamous massacre on May 4th 1970.
Two days and 54 years stand between these two events, while May 2nd had no casualties the way May 4th did, these events mirror one another. We also see similarities between media coverage of Kent State versus Jackson State University, a small lesser known school but is a historically black college. We see this pattern repeat itself with Columbia University having encampments around the same time as Purchase. The events of Kent State can contextualize the response to and aftermath of the Gaza war protests of Spring 2024 held by college students.
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