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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: Cliven Bundy
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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Guns and government: standing down in Oregon
The Occupation at Malheur Wildlife Refuge is falling apart as federal law enforcement picks away at it. On Tuesday afternoon, the FBI and Oregon state police arrested seven Occupiers, and killed another one, LaVoy Finicum, under circumstances that are unclear … Continue reading
God and democracy
The Occupation at Malheur National Wildlife Refuge continues at this writing, and whatever local authorities and the FBI are doing to end the moment isn’t obvious or clear to those of us watching from afar. If there’s a plan, I … Continue reading
Another kind of Occupation: What do you mean “we”?
Occupation of public spaces to advance a political agenda is nothing new to us, nor to anyone who watched Occupy flash across American politics in 2011. The ongoing Occupation at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon is a little … Continue reading
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Tagged Ammon Bundy, Burns, Cliven Bundy, Dwight Hammond, FBI, guns, Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, Occupy, Oregon, police, race, Steven Hammond, violence
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Occupy Recapture on wheels
Phil Lyman, elected a county commissioner for San Juan County in Utah, thinks that people should be able to use public land near them as they see fit. The Federal Bureau of Land Management disagrees, at least partly. Since 2007 … Continue reading
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Tagged Anasazi, ATV, BLM, civil disobedience, Cliven Bundy, drive-in, elected officials, Native Americans, Occupy, Phil Lyman, Pueblos, Recapture Canyon, San Juan County, Utah
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Cliven Bundy gets real
Sure enough, as the Feds backed down and out–at least for the moment–the camera has shifted to Cliven Bundy, the rancher who doesn’t want to pay to graze his cattle on public lands. So far, it’s not such a pretty … Continue reading
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Tagged Bureau of Land Management, Cliven Bundy, land, mistakes, ranching, terror
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Uniting against the US: BLM and Cliven Bundy
Cliven Bundy, a rancher in Nevada, has been grazing his cattle on public land in Clark County for free for more than twenty years. (The story is all over, but you can find a succinct summary at the new site, … Continue reading
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Tagged Bureau of Land Management, cattle, Cliven Bundy, Constitution, David Koresh, Glenn Beck, land, Nevada, polzarization, ranching, Randy Weaver, tea party, Vox
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Politics Outdoors 