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Ferguson has become synonymous with resistance.<\/p>\n

As Ferguson marches on, they have become a great teacher. They taught us about military-grade weapons being used in small, suburban towns. They reminded us of the importance of journalism and its necessity to record police abuses. They taught us the power of social media to bypass traditional modes of broadcasting and still capture the attention of people around the world. They asked us to make the systemic connections between Eric Garner<\/a>, John Crawford<\/a>, and Michael Brown, refusing to consider these deaths isolated incidents of coincidence.<\/p>\n

More than 10 weeks since the first protests sparked, Ferguson is still teaching us about leading a sustained, creative movement. Ferguson forced us to revisit the words of Martin Luther King Jr., to dig up pictures of the 1960s protests, to ask ourselves, \u201chow far have we really come?\u201d<\/p>\n

Ferguson is a great teacher, but are we great students?<\/p>\n

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