David S. Meyer
I'm a professor of sociology and political science at the University of California, Irvine. I've been thinking, and writing about, protest politics for almost ever. This site offers comments on contemporary events, informed (I hope) by knowing something about history and about the academic study of social movements.
Tag Archives: Washington post
What Occupy Wall Street Learned from the Tea Party
This appears in the Washington Post’s Sunday Outlook Section. [I'm fascinated by the range of responses in the comment section.] The Occupy Wall Street movement, three weeks strong and gaining momentum, reminds us that tea partyers aren’t the only people … Continue reading
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Tagged demands, global capitalism, Los Angeles, Occupy Wall Street, tea party, Washington DC, Washington post
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When anger isn’t enough
(A little long for the blog, this is cross-posted from the Washington Post.) There’s something exciting, sometimes terrifying, about people taking to the streets to get what they want. In Cairo’s Tahrir Square, they gathered to demand the ouster of … Continue reading
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Tagged Americans for Prosperity, debt, elections, FreedomWorks, Madison, protest, unemployment, unions, Washington post
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