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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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Tag Archives: abortion
Opportunistic Advocacy (1/x); COVID-19 (4/x)
Effective advocates don’t want to waste a crisis. They try to photobomb into public attention to advance their concerns. Sometimes, it’s a clear fit–in direct response to the challenges of the moment; sometimes, they fly a long favored reform or … Continue reading
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Tagged abortion, advocacy, Ammon Bundy, Cliven Bundy, conservative, coronavirus, courts, COVID-19, Daniel Kelly, guns, Idaho, Jill Karofsky, Milwaukee, Ohio, opportunities, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Texas, voting, Wisconsin
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Alyssa Milano, Lysistrata, and the sex strike for reproductive rights
Actress/activist and Twitter master, Alyssa Milano, is rightly concerned about the contagion of new state laws restricting access to abortion. Sniffing the prospects of a conservative Catholic majority on the Supreme Court eager to overrule Roe v. Wade, Republican state legislators … Continue reading
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Tagged abortion, Alyssa Milano, Aristophanes, hashtag, Lysistrata, reproductive rights, Scott DesJarlais, sex strike, state legislature, Supreme Court, theater, twitter, war
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Will the Women’s March matter?
Increasingly, the women’s march looks to sound the trumpet for a new surge in oppositional politics during the Trump era–however long it lasts. Counter-inaugural protests are nothing new, but this effort is getting more and better attention than any others … Continue reading
What these protests do…
Young people, particularly in places that didn’t support Donald Trump, continue to protest his election. (Below, you can see high school students in San Francisco marching.) Two months before his inauguration, it’s worthwhile to think about just what these demonstrations … Continue reading
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Tagged abortion, ACLU, Congress, demonstration, deportation, Donald Trump, immigration, media, Planned Parenthood, president-elect, Republican Party, safety pin, sanctuary, Steve Bannon
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Climate activists: Habemus papem
Pope Francis’s encyclical on the moral necessity of protecting the earth is out. You can read “On Care for Our Common Home” here (in English; translations in many other languages are readily available–but I couldn’t find the Latin version). The … Continue reading
Thirty-five feet
I used to go to a wonderful dentist whose office, on Beacon Street in Brookline, was next door to the Planned Parenthood clinic at the center of today’s Supreme Court decision. Once, accompanied by my wife (I’m very squeamish about … Continue reading
The March for Life and the risks and rewards of institutionalization
Many abortion opponents showed up for the annual March for Life in Washington, DC this past week, commemorating (mourning) the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that established abortion rights across the United States. I don’t know how many; the Park … Continue reading
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Tagged abortion, anti-abortion, commemoration, institutionalization, media, news, numbers, Parks Service, Roe v. Wade, Supreme Court, Washington, weather
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Code Pink takes outdoor politics inside the convention
Two members of Code Pink, the feminist antiwar group, somehow got inside the Republican convention, and aired their grievances with the Romney/Ryan ticket. They only had a few moments to battle for prime time attention with Vice Presidential nominee Paul … Continue reading
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Tagged abortion, Code Pink, convention, drones, elections, Obama, Paul Ryan, vagina, war
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