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Groups like SLAM have also been accused of using overly feisty, noisy, and confrontational tactics. Yet, not only do such criticisms ignore the vital role played by loud and vigorous dissent in any democracy worthy of the name, but they also fail to note the full scope of what student activists...
Until then, don’t expect us to be quiet. We know that silence is betrayal. We know that not only is it our right to dissent, it’s also our responsibility. And we know that when we speak out, what we say and do can reverberate far beyond the echo chamber of the ivory tower...
...Silencing the Voices of Dissent Inside the forced shutdown of Iran's most popular reformist paper, Shargh
...spawned by the Chechen conflict, the government has been using proxies like its oil behemoth, Gazprom, to acquire media outlets for years. Examples of this include the NPV television network and Izvestia, a leading newspaper. Anna wrote for the Novaya Gazeta, which is one of the last bastions of dissent in Putin’s Russia, partly owned by Nobel Peace Prize winner Mikhail Gorbachev...
Anna heavily criticized Muslim extremism, but she also dug up cases of Russian intelligence services falsely incriminating innocent civilians in the war zone. Her dissent sought to convince Russians their freedoms were the worst victim of the Chechen...