How can we help our students in holding peaceful demonstrations

[Globalcitizen12]

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There is no need for property destruction. I used to hate vandals during strikes. One time while we had a strike a few students vandalized school canteen and classes. I was livid. I felt it was the worst betrayal of the reason why we had rioted. We had 3 riots and all them were peaceful. I would hope by now student leadership in campuses would be able to work on ways to have peaceful demonstrations.

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meanwhile 3 out of 5 kids enrolling in primary school droupout before graduation.

[Kim Jong-Un's Pajama Pants]

The best way to avoid the violence is to minimize their grievances.   Students normally don't just snap over a single incident.  Most likely there are lot of other genuine grievances that have gone unaddressed when they tried peaceful means.

[veritas]

I went to this anarchy meeting tonight. Students are angry. Not the kind of angry like a mere protest type angry. I mean violence. Like the threat of shootouts angry.

[veritas]

I also went to this talk which was supposed to be about nanotechnology, guy was going on about climate change, extinction, the threat of overpopulation. According to him, no matter what we do to conserve energy like take up solar power etc. it won't matter because of over population. The guy's an idiot, no knowledge of foreign policy, the UN seems to make a habit these days of recruiting idiots. The thing is though, why is there such a lack of knowledge & education among scholars? The role of a scholar seems to be shifting too. I question how many genuine thinkers are there in the world today that aren't just self deluded. No wonder students are disenfranchised, angry and so forth.