Media Outrage and Extreme Responses

Can’t they protest someplace quiet where I don’t have to think about them?!

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CREDITS 

• Created by: Rollie Williams, Nicole Conlan & Ben Boult
• Hosts: Rollie Williams & Nicole Conlan
• Executive Producer: Ben Boult 
• Editor: Laura Conte
• Producers: Daniella Philipson, Irene Plagianos
• Archival Producer: Margaux Sax
• Additional Research and Fact Checking: Carly Rizzuto & Canute Haroldson
• Music: Tony Domenick 
• Art: Jordan Doll 
• Special Thanks: The Civil Liberties Defense Center

SOURCES

• Don Vidrine and Bob Kaluza: What Happened to the BP Executives? Aahana Swrup. (2024, April 7). The Cinemaholic.
• Stop the Church. ACT UP Oral History Project. (n.d.). Retrieved October 28, 2025.
• In Memory of Jesse Helms, and The Condom On His House [VIDEOS] - POZ. Peter Staley. (2008, July 8). POZ. 
• Panel Discussion: Protest Art and the Art of Protest. Art For Tomorrow. (2023, May 8).
• Here Is Every Artwork Attacked by Climate Activists This Year, From the “Mona Lisa” to “Girl With a Pearl Earring.” Benzine, V. (2022, October 31). Artnet News.
• Taraji Shouts Out Keith Lee & Halle, Urges Us To Research Project 2025 & GO VOTE | BET Awards ’24. BETNetworks. (2024, July 1).
• “Deeds not words”: Suffragettes and the Summer Exhibition. Bonett, H. (2018, June 18). Royal Academy of Arts.
• A Timeline of Colin Kaepernick’s Protests against Police Brutality. Boren, C. (2020, August 26). Washington Post.
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• Even Though He Is Revered Today, MLK Was Widely Disliked by the American Public When He Was Killed. Cobb, J. (2018, April 4). Smithsonian.
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• How AIDS Activists Used “Die-Ins” to Demand Attention to the Growing Epidemic. Montalvo, D. (2021, June 2). HISTORY.
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• Five legal missteps in Judge Hehir’s sentencing of Plummer and Holland – Just Stop Oil. Press, J. (2024, October 16).
• Here’s the Story Behind the St. Patrick’s Cathedral Action Depicted in “Pose.”. Rodriguez, M. (2019, June 12). TheBody.com.
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• Radical Flanks of Social Movements Can Increase Support for Moderate Factions. Simpson, B., Willer, R., & Feinberg, M. (2022). PNAS Nexus, 1(3), 1–11.
• Deeds Not Words: Slashing the Rokeby Venus. Walker, E. (2024, May 9). History Today.
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