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...party, McCarthy spoke to guests about the ideas that inspired the book. He said that we should love our country enough to criticize it. "Obama's election represents the symbolic end of the twenty-first century civil rights movement," said McCarthy. He continued, "now it's time for another movement. It's time for us to critique our nation in order to make it better...
Protest Nation is meant to inspire readers to do just that. Rebecca J. Cohen '12, who had McCarthy as an expos preceptor and spent her past two spring breaks on his alternative spring break program, said that the book will inspire anyone interested in advocacy, from civil rights, gay rights, to even environmentalism. "McCarthy is a huge inspirational model. It's great to see his work show on a national level...
...Ours is not a criminal process. We’re not going to take away somebody’s civil rights,” he says. “We have a whole different standard: hearsay is fine with us; we take cases that the district attorney would never take; we’re not adjudicating...
...Black Men’s Forum highlighted Simmons’s involvement with urban youth, African American organizations, small business owners, and civil and equal rights throughout her public service career...
Baldwin—who is involved with Riverkeeper, a clean water advocacy group, and serves on the board of People for the American Way, a civil rights organization—said he uses his celebrity status to advocate for causes he believes in, especially clean politics and clean energy initiatives...