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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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Are the Open-Up protests winning? What does winning mean? COVID-19
Dramatic, often confrontational, protests by small groups to “open up” seem to be working. The protests certainly haven’t enjoyed the support of most Americans. A substantial majority of Americans oppose a quick lifting of restrictions on public life and are … Continue reading
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Tagged business, California, CDC, courts, COVID-19, Donald Trump, Gretchen Whitmer, guns, masks, Michigan, Ohio, open up, public opinion, vaccines, Wisconsin
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Gavin Newsom, Jonah, protest, and the preparation paradox, COVID-19
Gavin Newsom, governor of California–where I live–has done a pretty good job in managing the awful coronacrisis. He’s acted quickly and decisively, taken strong measures informed by science and data, and has explained his decisions. It’s been a hassle: after … Continue reading
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Tagged Bible, California, coronacrisis, COVID-19, Gavin Newsom, Huntington Beach, Jay Inslee, Jonah, Mike DeWine, Nineveh, Ohio, open up, paradox of prevention, preparation, Sacramento, Washington
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It’s the guns, COVID-19
Guns aren’t the only way to threaten public safety, as open up protesters screaming into the faces of masked police officers surely know. The police are wearing masks to avoid the possibility of infecting other people. Those medical masks are … Continue reading
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Tagged Black Panther Party, California, COVID-19, Donald Trump, Gavin Newsom, Gretchen Whitmer, guns, Huey Newton, Huntington Beach, masks, Michigan, NRA, open up, Ronald Reagan, Sacramento
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Generational Divides, Student Activism, and the Youth Vote
Moblizing Ideas, a blog that Notre Dame’s Center for the Study of Social Movements maintains, commissioned a series on youth activism–way before most of us were tuned into the way the #coronacrisis would take over our politics and lives. I’ve … Continue reading
Students walk out for gun control; schools teach….compliance?…engagement?
The final tallies are not in on participation in the National Student Walk Out for school safety, but thousands of kids across the country have gone outdoors for a lesson on civic engagement. This demonstration was organized on the fly, … Continue reading
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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Oh yeah, guns…..
The sniper murders in Dallas provide another chance to think about what legal access to firearms in the United States should look like. The demonstrators included individuals legally and openly carrying weapons. Apparently, even with good intent, this was of … Continue reading
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Tagged black lives matter, California, Dallas, gun control, Mulford Act, open carry, race, Ronald Reagan, Sacramento
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Problematic allies and UC tuition
University of California students don’t want their tuition to increase. I saw the protests outside the Board of Regents meeting and on my campus, and I heard the students in my classroom explain just what an extra 5 percent might … Continue reading
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Tagged California, education, Janet Napolitano, Jerry Brown, Sadia Saifuddin, students, tuition, university, University of California
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Cesar Chavez Day, 2014
The parking lot is deserted at the University of California, Irvine today; it’s a holiday to commemorate Cesar Chavez, and really, the farmworkers movement and Latinos in California. I’m reposting my Cesar Chavez blog below. There’s one additional wrinkle this … Continue reading
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Tagged California, Cesar Chavez, commemoration, culture, Dolores Huerta, farmworkers, Fred Korematsu, labor, Martin Luther King, movies, UFW, unions, University of California
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Korematsu Day, institutionalizing commemoration
Korematsu Day is celebrated today, and I repost the entry from the first Korematsu Day in 2011. The formal inclusion of commemoration in our calendar is a mixed blessing. On one hand, it marks a terrible period in our nation’s … Continue reading
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Tagged California, commemoration, Fred Korematsu, institutionalization, Korematsu v. US, race, Supreme Court, World War II
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