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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.
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The debt debate: Can the Republican Party sell out the Tea Party?
Political parties have to sell out the movements that support them. First, they exploit the energy, incorporate new activists and ideas, and then find some watered down way to soften the rough edges. Parties that can’t tame the movements that … Continue reading
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Tagged debt, FreedomWorks, michele bachmann, parties, tea party, Tea Party Patriots
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Prisoners continue to fast, apparently
News about the ongoing hunger strike in Pelican Bay’s “supermax” prison is leaking out slowly and unreliably. (We’ve covered the hunger strike a few days ago, as well as the hunger strike as a tactic more generally.) While there’s little … Continue reading
Who’s to blame for increased California university tuition?
Tuition at the public universities in California, including the University of California, Irvine, which pays my salary, continues to skyrocket, even as operating budgets in the University of California and California State Universities erode. The president of the University of … Continue reading
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Tagged protest, student, targets, tuition, Univerrsity of California
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Unemployment politics and the organizational deficit
Slid into the Business section of Sunday’s NY Times, Catherine Rampell notes that the number of unemployed in the United States has climbed over 14 million, but that the unemployed are politically invisible: In some ways, this boils down to … Continue reading
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Tagged deficit, labor, organization, protest, unemployment, unions
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Prisoners protest by fasting
What are we to make of the hunger strikes spreading through California’s prison population? Starting in Pelican Bay, a “supermax” prison for inmates convicted of the worst of crimes, it has reportedly spread to thirteen prisons; at least 6,600 prisoners … Continue reading
The end of nuclear power in Germany
German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government announced late last month that it would phase out nuclear power by the end of 2021. The last few months had seen several shifts in policy, as well as a great deal of public outcry. … Continue reading
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Tagged Angela Merkel, Germany, Japan, movement outcomes, nuclear power, Seabrook, Wyhl
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Breaking up the Tea Party: Raising the debt ceiling.
The unfolding debt ceiling standoff is exacerbating divisions within the Tea Party movement that have been visible from the outset. (Confession: I started writing about this end of the Tea Party on election day, 2010.) The United States has to … Continue reading
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Tagged Americans for Prosperity, deficit, FreedomWorks, Tea Parrty Express, tea party, Tea Party Patriots
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Motorcycle helmets, protest, and irony
Philip Contos drove a 1983 Harley-Davidson with a group of bikers protesting mandatory helmet laws in New York. Living the world they wanted to see, the protesters weren’t wearing helmets. Contos died when he lost control of his bike and … Continue reading
The Tea Party and the Bachmann challenge
Representative Michele Bachmann (Minnesota) embraced the Tea Party enthusiastically as it first arrived, seeing it as the expression of the conservative populist sentiments she means to embody. After the Republican victories of 2010, she started the Tea Party Caucus in … Continue reading
The Tea Party’s electoral dilemma
Our Constitution presents a recurring dilemma for social movements: routine elections. Right after the Republicans won massive gains in the 2010 elections–and the Tea Party claimed a great deal of credit for those victories–conservative activists shifted their attention to the … Continue reading
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