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david s. meyer
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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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As protest spreads….renegotiating bad deals
I gave up on keeping on top of all the anti-Trump protests spreading across the United States, but the emerging resistance certainly isn’t giving up. People who marched in one of the women’s march or protested ant-Muslim travel restrictions at … Continue reading
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Tagged abortion rights, anti-abortion, Betsy DeVos, divestment, Donald Trump, education, environment, immigration, schools, Standing Rock, Wells Fargo
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Democracy’s rapid response: defending immigrant rights in the Trump era
We live in extraordinary times, made so by the threat of tyranny, not of terrorism. When the Trump administration forced implementation of a new set of entry restrictions clearly targeted more at Muslims than terror, the responses were massive and … Continue reading
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Tagged ACLU, airport, Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Constitution, courts, Dallas, Donald Trump, Executive Order, immigration, Kennedy Airport, Los Angeles, migrants, Muslim, rights, San Francisco, Seattle, terrorism, traveler, Washington DC
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Protest in the Trump era, part 3 of ….: Loyalty?
Sometimes effective political action requires leaving a job you like; sometimes, it means finding a way to do that job properly. Most of the political protest we think of as protest looks at least a little like the Women’s March. … Continue reading
Spartacus moments (solidarity)
The signal moment in Stanley Kubrick’s (1960) Spartacus takes place on a hillside after the Roman legions finally defeat a slave rebellion led by Kirk Douglas. The victorious Roman general announces that the surviving rebels will all be welcomed back … Continue reading
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Tagged ADL, blacklist, DACA, deportation, diversity, Donald Trump, Howard Fast, immigration, Jonathan Greenblatt, Kirk Douglas, Muslim, risk, sanctuary, solidarity, Spartacus, Stanley Kubrick, students, universities
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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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