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May 15, 2024

From NPR

As protests continue to rock the campuses of colleges and universities, a familiar set of questions is being raised: Are these protests really being led by students? Or are the real drivers of the civil disobedience outsider agitators, seizing on an opportunity to wreak chaos and stir up trouble?

Listen to Gene Demy and others in this Code Switch episode.

Questions like this arose in 2020.

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