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If the ongoing struggles waged by young people are to matter, demonstrations and protests must give way to more sustainable organizations that develop alternative communities, autonomous forms of worker control, collective forms of health care, models of direct democracy and emancipatory modes of education.

Henry Giroux

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Henry Giroux
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: September 18
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