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In reply to the discussion: The 63-Year-Old Career Activist Among the Protesters at Columbia , cops call her a "professional agitator" [View all]moonshinegnomie
(2,592 posts)11. except thats what she does
Unions and activist groups have paid her $300 a day to run demonstrations and teach their members tactics for taking over the streets
We have to be willing to create a crisis. We have to be willing to engage in social disruption and create crisis for the people in power who are creating harm. those are her words.
thats being a professional agitator
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The 63-Year-Old Career Activist Among the Protesters at Columbia , cops call her a "professional agitator" [View all]
BlueWaveNeverEnd
May 1
OP
The older woman "professional left wing agitator" is such an Upper West Side character type that
Prairie Gates
May 1
#4
If authorities call you a "professional agitator" then you must be doing something right.
ZonkerHarris
May 2
#37