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From Anti-Apartheid to 'Black Brunch,' Bay Area Protests Break New Ground

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Throughout this past week, hundreds of demonstrators filled the streets in Berkeley and Oakland. The protesters were mostly young, angered over recent grand jury decisions not to prosecute two police officers involved in the deaths of unarmed black men in New York and Ferguson, Missouri. The week's protests got us thinking about how protest strategies have changed -- or not -- in the 21st century.

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