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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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Protest, Riot, and Rebellion in Minneapolis
Protesters took to the streets of Minneapolis in response to the police killing of George Floyd. And they stayed. Some wore masks and tried to observe public health protocols for social distance. Some carried gas masks. Some broke windows of … Continue reading
How activists should respond to the racist right: 2. shut them down (antifa) (?)
Standing up to a racist fascist movement when it is still small enough to start seems to make sense. Antifa is an umbrella term uniting people who commit to doing so aggressively, as (at right) in Berkeley in April. Of … Continue reading
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Tagged Ann Coulter, antifa, Berkeley, Charlottesville, Donald Trump, Ferguson, media, military, Milo Yiannopoulos, Missouri, nonviolence, paramilitary, repression, violence
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Mizzou, part II: Lead-up and legacies
Most of us tuned into the story about the ouster of University of Missouri president Timothy Wolfe last weekend, when the football team weighed in to support a hunger striker, and saw a sudden and conclusive end when Wolfe stepped … Continue reading
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Tagged Aristotle, Clay Travis, Concerned Student 1950, ethos, Ferguson, Jay Nixon, Jonathan Butler, logos, media, Missouri, Mizzou, organization, pathos, police violence, race, racism, Timothy Wolfe, University of Missouri
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Will the revolution be tweeted?
More than forty years ago, the talented and tragic poet/musician/activist Gil Scott-Heron rapped–before there was rap–that the Revolution would not be televised. Television was controlled by big corporations and commercial interests, and social change would come from the streets. But … Continue reading
Justice, peace, and indictments in Baltimore #Ferguson
When Maryland State’s attorney Marilyn Mosby decided to indict six police officers for the death of Freddie Gray, she may have been responding only to the evidence of criminal conduct by law enforcement. Her office found that police lacked probable … Continue reading
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Tagged #blacklivesmatter, #protestmatters, Baltimore, courts, crime, Ferguson, Freddie Gray, Gregg Bernstein, justice, Marilyn Mosby, police, police violence, riots
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The Ferguson report: How protest works
The Department of Justice has released its report on policing in Ferguson. It tells an extremely disturbing story, in which the killing of Michael Brown and the volatile protests that followed, the awful policing of those protests, and the subsequent … Continue reading
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Tagged Department of Justice, Ferguson, influence, Michael Brown, police violence, protest, revenue
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Police violence and the special prosecutor
Twenty-five thousand people marched in New York City on Saturday because they were angry that police who kill unarmed, uh, suspects, aren’t prosecuted. But they’re angry about more than that: differential policing based on color, particularly the treatment of young … Continue reading
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Tagged civil judgments, courts, Eric Garner, Ferguson, Michael Brown, New York City, police, police violence, prosecution, race, settlements, special prosecutors
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#Black Lives Matter: Does protest?
Large demonstrations yesterday in Washington, DC and New York City–and smaller ones across the United States–kept public attention on the issue of police violence. Activists–and others who just might come out next time–wonder whether anything will come of this moment … Continue reading
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Tagged black lives matter, Chris Magnus, Chrissy Teigen, Eric Garner, Ferguson, food trucks, grand jury, Harvard University, hashtag, John Legend, Los Angeles, medical students, Michael Brown, Missouri, police brutality, police violence, race, Richmond, Rodney King
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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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