Ratner discusses suppression of dissent in North America

    In this interesting interview on the Real News Network, Center for Constitutional Rights president Michael Ratner discusses his new book, Hell No: Your Right to Dissent in Twenty-First-Century America, and the various ways that the US government has sought to undermine recent mass protests.



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