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Boston Calling: The Protest Edition

The Protest Edition

20/01/2018 GMT

BBC World Service - Boston Calling, The Protest Edition

Six stories about people finding all sorts of ways to take a stand.

Jasiel López never expected to be an activist. Then he learned that the DACA programme, which allows him to stay in the US, could be rescinded. 

Also: why the jarana, a guitar-like instrument from Mexico, is showing up at protests in the US; women veterans want their voices to be heard in the #MeToo movement; we remember Mathilde Krim, who played a pivotal right in the fight against AIDS; and we speak to the authors of a biography of Josephine Baker, singer, dancer, and civil rights activist. 

(Image: Jasiel López is a student at Florida International University in Miami. Credit: PRI’s The World )

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