Topic: Protest

On the latest episode of How To Really Run A City, former mayors Michael Nutter and Kasim Reed catch up with Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney. NEW this episode: Watch the conversation

Citizen Co-founder Larry Platt’s column last week on the Penn protests sparked a lot of reaction. Here, one reader’s email in response, and their subsequent civil back and forth

Protesters pressured Dickinson College to cancel the local Sirius and CNN talk show host’s commencement address to graduates. Here, he responds

Professors and local pols like progressive Councilmembers Gauthier, Brooks and O’Rourke say they want to support Penn students’ rights to peaceful protest. But does their support of Gaza encampments turn a moral blind eye?

During Passover week a longtime university president reflects on antisemitism and threats to free speech on campus

The protest in front of Michael Solomonov’s restaurant revealed more than know-nothingism

Rainbow capitalism and crosswalks are nice, but let’s not forget we need to demand our right to exist

The issue, a long-time university president laments, is the exploitation of graduate students at colleges

What do the proposed Sixers arena, UC Townhomes, the selling off of county water and sewer systems, and protests of the Bellwether District have in common? Opposition that is shrill and uncivil. Is the art of persuasion dead?

Reflecting on last week’s City Council disruptions, WURD’s afternoon host calls for protests with purpose—to make real change