Student Protester Resources
As protests for many causes crop up on college campuses across the country, students are grappling with strong feelings on important issues, and where and how to express them. Recent protests, including at Indiana University itself, have controversially led to arrests. Students may question what rights they do and do not have, and how they can assert them, whether they plan to join a protest, organize one, or document one (such as with video). The right to protest is enumerated in the Constitution, specifically the First Amendment: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably … Continued