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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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How activists should respond to the racist right: 1. nonviolent counterdemonstrations
Of course it’s heartening to see 40,000 explicitly anti-racist demonstrators turn out in Boston (August 20), dwarfing the assembly they were protesting against. Was it the best approach to countering white nationalist mobilization advancing in response to Trump adminstration policies … Continue reading
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Tagged antiracism, arrests, Boston, Boston Common, Charlottesville, countermovement, discipline, Donald Trump, free speech, KKK, Nazis, nonviolence, organization, police, racism, violence, white nationalism
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How Trump encourages and provokes political violence
Donald Trump has done great damage to more than his presidency. With his remarks about the tragedy in Charlottesville, Trump dramatically increased the nourishment and encouragement he has been feeding the racist right. Activists respond to signals, and racist right … Continue reading
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Tagged antifa, Charlottesville, Confederate, David Duke, Donald Trump, guns, Lost Cause, monuments, Nazi, police, racism, Richard Spencer, signals, twitter, violence, white nationalism
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Business defections, updated
Donald Trump’s advisory councils are no more. This doesn’t mean, of course, that Trump will no longer be taking advice; it’s not clear that he ever listened to these groups anyway. But, since the horrifying events in Charlottesville, and especially … Continue reading
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Tagged advisory councils, business, CEOs, Charlottesville, Donald Trump, Manufacturing Council, symbolic politics, twitter
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Varieties of disruption: business defections
Protest can exercise influence by disrupting the usual politics of the moment, and there are lots of ways to create disruptions, and different people have vastly different opportunities. Large demonstrations are one way to show strength, but you need to … Continue reading
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Tagged Brian Krzanich, business, disruption, Donald Trump, Intel, Kenneth Frazier, Kevin Plank, Manufacturing Council, Merck, Scott Paul, Under Armour
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And the Confederate monuments?
About those statues? The Nazis and Klansmen and associated white racists said they were marching in Charlottesville to save the statue of General Robert E. Lee on horseback. Last year Charlottesville’s City Council voted to strike the statue and rename … Continue reading
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Tagged Charlottesville, commemoration, Confederacy, Durham, Jason Kessler, Ku Klux Klan, Meet the Press, Nazis, racism, Rich Lowry, Richard Spencer, Robert E. Lee, Southern Poverty Law Center, Stonewall Jackson, Thomas Jefferson, Unite the Right, University of Virginia, Virginia
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Why Charlottesville?
With the help of Donald Trump, a few hundred white nationalists captured national attention this weekend, eclipsing for the moment growing international dangers as well as the much larger sustained mobilization of the anti-Trump Resistance. Weapons, provocative symbols, counterprotest, and … Continue reading
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Tagged Adolf Hitler, antifa, Berkeley, California, Charlottesville, Confederate, countermovements, Donald Trump, guns, Illinois, Ku Klux Klan, Nazi, racism, resistance, Robert E. Lee, Skokie, Terry McAuliffe, Thomas Jefferson, Unite the Right, University of Virginia, Virginia, white nationalism
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Free speech on campus? Provocation and protest.
Berkeley has become the indispensable stop on the right-wing lecture circuit. Antifa (anti-fascist) groups in the Bay Area now reliably turn up on campus to try to make sure offensive ideas don’t pass unchallenged. Oakland Antifa has already announced a … Continue reading
Democracy and science
This weekend’s March for Science turned out hundreds of thousands around the world, with particularly large turnouts in Washington, DC, and Chicago. For yet another protest weekend, a week before the Peoples Climate March, this level of participation was pretty impressive. … Continue reading
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Tagged climate change, cold war, Donald Trump, Dwight Eisenhower, education, Environmental Protection Agency, expertise, Federation of American Scientists, George W. Bush, March for Science, National Institutes for Health, nutrition, pollution, science, Sputnik, Union of Concerned Scientists
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Taxes and science
When large demonstrations work, they change the conversations afterward. Assembling in Washington DC–and elsewhere–occupies space in mainstream and social media even when the demonstrators have gone home. Last week’s tax march, which turned out tens of thousands across scores of … Continue reading
A day without…. a note on strikes
Today organizers of the Women’s March are staging a strike….of sorts. The fundamental logic of a strike is coercive. People refuse to do what’s expected of them (e.g., work, take public transit, pay taxes), forcing those dependent on cooperation or … Continue reading
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Tagged Aristophanes, coal, Colorado coal wars, immigrants, labor, Ludlow Massacre, Lysistrata, strikes, unions, women, women's march
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