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Using Social Media to Organize Protest

by Victoria M. Walker
December 10, 2014
1 min read

Organizers Find New Tools to Fight Social Injustice

Organizers have used social media to put together protest marches and rallies globalluy in the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner

 

 

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