Host good morning it is monday, may 13. Whether it is the College Campus protest over israel and god also her preparation and protest of National Conventions. Protests are the spotlight. We are asking you if you ever participated in a protest and what issue were you rallying for . Phone lines are split by age if you are under 25 202 7488000, if you are over 65 202 7488002. You can send us a text at 202 7488003 or catch up on social media at x at cspanwj and facebook at facebook. Com cspan. First some numbers from the Gallup Organization. The Gallup Organization pulling on this topic in the last time they did it was an in the wake of the dobbs abortion decision. Gallup first pulled back in 1965 with just 10 of americans said they felt the urge to organize a public demonstration. Speaking of the 1960s parallels between College Product test protest of today and 1960s. 1960s advocates see parallels to protest today. Some said they see themselves in todays protesters while others drew a stark line between their action and the violent language of demonstrations today. We want to hear from you this morning in this first hour. Have you ever participated in a protest . 202 7488000 if you are under 25, 2565 202 7488001 and over 65 202 7488002. The protest were just one of the topics including on face the nation. They were asked about Hillary Clintons comment that students participating in the protests are illinformed about the issue in the middle east. [video clip] she said student protesters dont know much about the history in many areas of the world. What you make of the concern amongst young voters . I thought secretary clintons comments were dismissive of students concerns about the awful humanitarian crisis and high civilian death toll. We can hold two ideas in our head at the same time. One is the right of americans to peacefully protest and the need to make sure students feel safe on campus. We also need to make face we stamp out antisemitism and hate wherever we see it. The great majority of the students are following very closely what is happening in gaza and see very high civilian death tolls and we can certainly revisit history and past negotiations. I believe the overwhelming majority, not all, there are some very bad elements, as well as on the counter protest side, i believe the students do understand what is happening in gaza with respect to civilian casualties. Host that was Chris Van Holland and we are asking you if you ever participated in a protest . This survey from axios about student participation in protest of the past several weeks finding only a percent of College Students have participated in either side of the protest. The students ranked the conflict as the least important issue out of nine events offered. Including health care, Civil Justice and Climate Change three times as many College Students blame hamas as they do President Biden. What have you protested in your lifetime . We began with rob in phoenix over the age of 55. Host what did you protest . Caller my first protest was the big wto in seattle. I dont think i was affiliated with any of the groups. I thought it was going to be an event and i wanted to be there and it turned out to be a landmark event in seattle and we shut down the World Trade Organization and the surrounding buildings. There was some violence and i remember at the intersection and seeing the greats being picked up and used to break the windows and i was shocked by that. I did not participate, im not an entire cast. I didnt know who they were. I went to the wto 56 months later ndc and currently i went to the Democratic Convention in los angeles in that same year there was a big protest in los angeles. That was the start of my participation in protests. Host what were you marching for in los angeles in 2000 . Was it still the wto . Caller no, no. I come from the 60s and 70s. I was just fed up with politics as they were. Rage against the machine played their last concert there. It was a big, big event. I got involved in the green party with ralph nader. I found myself going into politics into a different sort. I would not protest against myself or joe biden. I dont find that form of resistance usable anymore. Not with the prospect of trunk. Host of the marches youve been to which one made the biggest difference . Caller they were all significant. The wto was a big event to show the power of the public and i did not expected or understand it. All they did was effective in showing against the corporate world of that sort of thing in the world bank. I was there when they arrested the puppets. The big papiermache puppets and they shut down the warehouses where they were building giant puppets. The Democratic Convention, i saw lines of police and stare them down. They pushed protesters away. All of them very powerful. I have been protesting ever sense but not anything like those days. Thats my experience. Host thank you for sharing. This is charlie and little rock, arkansas. What have you protested . Caller i protest of various causes. I started protesting against Westborough Baptist church when i was younger they showed up at a random funeral for an air man that died. Since then, as an adult i have protested for minimum wage and b lm. Ive been to several propalestine protest and little rock. I have been so quite a few protests. Host for the most recent one, how many people have been in the little rock one . Caller the war processed are on most saturdays and we will have one this upcoming wednesday and it is a drive and protest but people are protesting in their cars it is a drive through protest. The protests have been good and have had a large attendance. I was surprised the first few times we came out because there were from 15, 17, 100 people at the protest. The ones with cars are harder but we have had pretty good attendance. Host are you making a difference . Caller yes. More people are showing up but our politicians both local and national to pay attention. That is why we have people like tom cotton agreeing that the protest arent good which is ironic for a democrat and a republican to be online you are left leaning until it comes to palestine. Host this is patrick in lady lake, florida and the line for people over 55. Caller my last protest was the losing of life in iran and iraq. There wasnt interceptive in email of the cia and mi5 director where can says do you know if we can reach the votes about wmd attacks. Most of the immigrants going to israel are from russia and they have no jewish blood whatsoever and we are supposed to support israel . Is salt label does antisemitism. Host are you participating in protests this time around . You mentioned the war in iraq . Caller one more thing about israel. They elected ariel sharon and they spent 20 years israel by the fourth and he was elected prime minister. A member of a gang who bombed the english out of jerusalem so this garbage from the u. S. Media where israel is innocent that wants to get along with everyone. Host this is michael in reno, nevada. What have you protested in your life . Caller in the last president ial election i tried to protest against electronic signature verification. When i looked at the glass plate i noticed it was not signature so i protested against that with those civil clerk and she would not accept i because she did not wa to get invoed. I sent a copy of the lettero newspapers hoping someone would care other than me host did it further than filing a protest . Did you take the protest any further . Caller i gave up because it was overwhelming. I wrote a letter to the editor and i hope someone would care enough and may be they would protest against the electronic signature verification because it is an insult to ask a human to write on a piece of glass and because their hand slips over the glass, is not like pen on paper. Host this is marlene from arlington, texas and this is the 2555. Caller i used my free speech to protest for palestine and the fbi showed up and i protested against a border wall. I protested against the tiktok ban because they wanted take our free speech away. I think if we are gonna do what we are going to do we need to protest. We need to be able to fight. You will have a good day, thank you. Host glenn from ohio over the age of 65 what have you protested in your life . Caller in 1964, the fulton act right act. I was arrested and taken to jail in selma, alabama. I was 13 at the time. I had many opportunities but that was in my own time. All the time we tried to have a right to vote they try to take it away from us. Its not right. Host how did you get involved at age 13 and were there other 13yearolds getting arrested on that same day . Caller it was all school kids. It was in alabama and we have the state troopers and policeman and they said if we see one more protest sign you will get locked up. And we didnd we were locked up in a school bus and they took us to county, i tnk it was state pron in selma, alabama. Host this was in 1963 . Caller 64. Host a student protest from 1964 . When you say the students organized, how did the young kids organized . How did you get there . Caller james sarge and Albert Turner and Martin Luther king was supposed to have come to town that day but i think he knew he was going to be arrested. The whole school, most of almost there. It was 1965 debate at Cambridge University in england when James Baldwin and the conservative commentator. I cant remember his name right now. That was my only time that i was protesting. Host glenn, thank you for talking about it. From the history channel, in 1960 three in birmingham the childrens crusade when the youth of birmingham marched for justice in the picture of the protesters being sprayed with fire hoses against the wall there. In 1963 in the caller about the 1964 marches. Caller my first protest was in new york as a kid back in 2003 when they wanted to put a cell phone on our school. Me and my Close Friends all went to protest and eventually, we won. Host why did you not one of the cell phone tower . Caller it was harmful with radiation which we found from studies back then. Host have you protested since then . Caller of peaceful protest honking for peace. Host did you feel that it made a difference . Caller a lot of people were receptive because you know how bad it was and how much we were lied to about the death count . Host this is noah in alabama on the line for those over 65. Caller i havent protested a whole lot. There isnt a lot to protest. I was going to make a comment on the palestinian israeli. Host were trying to stick to the protest and thus our subject for this first hour. Let me get to james in pennsylvania on the line for over 65. Caller i never participated in a physical protest as far as marching but what i do is i write a lot of letters to congressmen, senators, president. When i watch the news, i always see just one side. It doesnt matter if it is fox, msnbc. They concentrate on the one thing that is wrong in most protest are nonviolent. Its because theyre d concerned about the situation where the news media focuses on the 2 people in the group they do something wrong and i think it is very unfair that our news media always focusesn the negative part of the protest, not the positive side. Ople have legitimate concerns about the lives of the lost i gaza. The news media, all it says is that they are antisemitic. Theyre just antiIsraeli Government. Host what issue have you written a letter about that resulted in action . Which letter has made the most difference . Caller nothing, really. Ill get an answer back and we try our best to do this or that. Its always an excuse or reason. It is one of the things that i find you look things up to find the facts and write about it and they say it doesnt seem to matter anymore if you protest for or against something. Host a few of your comments via social media. Aaron writing and hundreds of us stood outside the state capital mask up from gretchen whitmer. Civil disobedience is not an anero any problem. Most protest remained peaceful but protesters only annoy people who are trying to work and send a meaningful message. I moved to reve the come confederate flag. We are talking on phone line split by age. Have you ever participated in a protest ended up it make a difference . We show you the story from the washington times. Chicagos democratic mayor is to keep protesters miles away from the convention. The story noting that Brandon Johnson and 70 organizations have formed a coalition where they anticipate thousands of people showing up from across the country. They have suggested alternative sites which would render them invisible to the 50,000 people who will descend on the d c and august. Again that is the washington times. This is maureen and age 2555. Caller back in the 90s i protested a strip club. I live in a resort community we built a house and had three kids and all of a sudden this place that was a bar they had assigned for a strip club. I went out there on friday afternoon between 3 005 00 and i stood there by myself of the sign. We had Family Living on the property. Occasionally, i had people help me and i worked with our town planner. I got the law change. I did visit the place so i could say that i had been on the inside and of he kind of slid it in there and do not apply for a permit. We worked with the town. I stood there every friday night with a sign. Probably for an entire summer. Eventually went to the town planner and got the law changed. When he changed ownership the stripping do not go along and now it is an apartment complex. That is my story. It is not anything like that man who stood for Voting Rights that called earlier, but one person can make a change and that is what i want to say and i wish the parents and family members would protest for all of the fentanyl deaths we are faced with every day. And thanks john, you are the best host. I feel like i am talking to someone. You are the best host and i thank you so much. Maureen in massachusetts, thanks for the call. This is linda in wilmington, North Carolina. What have you protested . Caller i was in high school we were protesting general awareness of segregation. Also the band the bomb movement and i was a serial protester for a while there. Host wide to become a serial protester . What did you get out of it . Caller i was making up for that. Host you are making up for your parents . Caller [indiscernible] host do you feel like youve protested enough to make up for it would you continue to do it . Caller the last protest i participated in was occupy wall street. I may serial protester. I do not live in new york anymore. Host for you one of those folks on wall street . Were you one of those folks on wall street . Caller i just went during the day. Host that was the last one you participated in . Caller i think it was the Police Violence one that happened as we were walking by and i joined them for a while. It was not really organized. Host that is linda in wilmington, North Carolina. This is randy in michigan. Caller i would like to start by thanking you and all of the other men and women it takes to bring us this great program. You are doing a great service. I have protested in front of our courthouse when our Republican Legislature under our governor wanted to tax our pensions. I was part of the occupy wall street in the flint michigan area were we watched out where we marched out in front of bank of america protesting their ceo pay and not investing in america. I also protested at our shop at buick when we went to make elaborate decisions and some of the foreman decided not to do it. We protested out front until we finally got enough attention to have the upper management go back and live by the agreement we both agreed on. Hours were all we did not occupy any spaces. It was basically walking out front. The one at buick was just be with the big sign. I did that through february and march the year i was doing it. Those were the biggest protests in that i was a participant in. Host what you think of the folks occupying spaces on College Campuses and how these protests have gone for students at colleges today . Caller that is a tricky one. I do not think they should have interrupted it is alright to walk in protest. I was never involved in one where they occupied anybodys space. I am not into that. You are not going to gain any sympathy by doing that. You have to at least put out your argument and let somebody think about the argument and let them make up their mind. If you do that it is a lot harder to make your point legitimately is how i feel. That is how the younger ones are doing it that way. Right or wrong, that is the way they are doing it. Host that is randy in michigan. I want you to keep calling in, i want to keep your your protest stories. Phone line split by age. What have you protested in your lifetime and did make a difference. 202 7488000 if you are under 25, 202 7488001 if you are 2565. 202 7488002 if you are over the age of 65. I want to take some time to note that as we have been doing on mondays as the donald trump hush money trial continues in new york we will take a look ahead. To do that we are joined on the phone by a reporter with the associated press. Good morning. The headline, trumpet trial arrives at a Pivotal Moment. Start witness Michael Cohen poised to take the stand. What are we expecting from him . Guest the trial has been building to this moment. Michael cohen was trumps lawyer , some people call him the fixer. He said he was involved in the hush money deal at the center of this case, the pment to Stormy Daniels. We heard a lot of testimony about that deal. Michael cohen is the guy precors hope can link the deal directly to donald trump in terms of what Michael Cohen says trumdicted him to make the payment in the weeks before the 20 election and then cohen may be able to give insight into the actual char