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- Margaret Talbot
I was a kid in the sixties, so I grew up with a sense that protests in the streets could change things: end wars, win justice for the disenfranchised. My older siblings were college activists, and they, and my gutsy, liberal mother, took me to demonstrations sometimes, where I shouted slogans and waved hand-lettered posters in the smog and sunlight of Southern California. My confidence was naïve, of course. It took more than people pouring into the streets and college quads to stop the war in V... show all text
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@NewYorker: Taking It to the Streets: Margaret Talbot on the importance of rallies and demonstrations for gun control: http://t.co/rGxQ0Fht
