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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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Ice bucket challenged
A creative campaign to raise attention and money for ALS (Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) has circulated across the web and through virtually every social media channel. You’ve seen a friend or a celebrity post a video of themselves dumping ice water … Continue reading
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Tagged ALS, charity, disease, fundraising, ice bucket challenge, marketing, social media
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Days of quiet rage
Generating turnout at a movement event is hard work. Grievances and injustice don’t make protest happen; rather, grievances allow an activist effort to resonate. When Anonymous called for nationwide demonstrations on the Ferguson events, they were depending upon local networks … Continue reading
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Tagged Anonymous, Days of Rage, Ferguson, Michael Brown, police, protest
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Days of Rage: Is Ferguson spreading out or dissipating?
Inspired by the ongoing events in Ferguson, Anonymous has called for Days of Rage protests across the nation: At least one part of the story here is the reasonably sophisticated use of social media, including Youtube above. The description … Continue reading
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Tagged Anonymous, Chicago, Days of Rage, diffusion, Ferguson, Michael Brown, Occupy, police, police brutality, SNCC, social media, video, violence, Weather Underground, youtube
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Nurse-in in Beverly Hills
Protest, when it works, makes it hard to ignore something that was previously ignorable. Yesterday, women held a nurse-in at the Anthropologie store in Beverly Hills. The flash meal was a response to an incident earlier in the week, when … Continue reading
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Tagged Anthropologie, Beverly Hills, breast feeding, Breastfeeding Awareness Month, Facebook, flash mob, Instagram, nurse-in, nursing, Target
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How movements work; Shamu’s story.
Here’s a shift: SeaWorld is building larger pens for the killer whales it keeps as performers and tourist attractions. It also announced an enhanced focus on research. Where did this come from? This is the movement story: Shamu, the stage … Continue reading
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Tagged Blackfish, courts, Gabriela Cowperthwaite, killer whales, litigation, orca, PETA, San Diego, SeaWorld, Shamu, Southwest Air, Tillikum
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Protest and riots
Violence polarizes. It makes people pay attention. It makes people take sides. And this goes for violence from authorities like the police as well as protesters. It doesn’t take many people, committed or crazy, in masks or police uniforms and … Continue reading
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Tagged Captain Ron Johnson, Ferguson, flak-cathers, Lindsey Lupo, Michael Brown, police, race, riots, Trayvon Martin, violence
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Ferguson and protesting police
Unfortunately, there’s not much new about protests in reaction to overly eager policing, and there are many tragic, maybe criminal, endings that don’t generate protests as well. In Ferguson, a small suburb of St. Louis, the police have clearly been … Continue reading
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Tagged Anonymous, Bill De Blasio, Daryl Gates, Ferguson, influence, police, police brutality, race, riot, Rodney King, St. Louis, Trayvon Martin
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Economic inequality is bad (Occupy echoes?)
Don’t trust me on this; that’s what Standard and Poor’s says in a report published on August 5. And S&P doesn’t mention human privation, stalled opportunity, justice, or any other kind of moral or political concern. Rather, S&P claims that … Continue reading
Occupy Maidan
They’re still there. At least some of the protesters who toppled Ukraine’s president Viktor Yanukovich months ago never left the Maidan, Kiev’s public square. According to Steven Zeitchik’s report in this morning’s Los Angeles Times, the overwhelming majority of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Bonus Army, Egypt, Kiev, Occupy, organization, Russia, Tahrir Square, Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovich, Zuccotti Park
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Tea Party business
Maybe the more important story of the conservative, mostly unsuccessful, primary challenges to incumbents isn’t the few victories nor the political shifts rightward from scared legislators. Maybe the big story is the money, millions dumped into primary campaigns by challengers … Continue reading
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