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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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#MeToo and the (2nd) Cosby trial
From the moment Montgomery County prosecutors decided to take another crack at Bill Cosby after a mistrial less than a year ago, critics have speculated about how the growing #MeToo movement would affect what went on in the courtroom. In … Continue reading
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Tagged #MeToo, Andrea Constand, Bill Cosby, celebrities, coming out, courts, John Scopes, law, Montgomery County, outcomes, Philadelphia, sexual assault
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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
Jailing Kim Davis and creating a cause
I’ll still stand by yesterday’s guess, that the rally round imprisoned county clerk Kim Davis will be relatively small and relatively brief. But today, The Daily News reports that roughly 200 supporters rallied in Grayson, Kentucky to protest her imprisonment. And … Continue reading
Martyrs, heroes, and the government
Social conservatives opposed to gay marriage have to decide what to do with Kim Davis, now sitting in a jail cell because she refused to issue marriage licenses–to anyone. She also refused to authorize anyone else in her office to … Continue reading
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Tagged Bible, Bill of Rights, Constitution, contempt of court, David L. Bunning, Democrat, Dorothy Day, gay rights, government, guns, judges, Kentucky, Kim Davis, law, marriage, Martin Luther King, Megan Rice, Mike Huckabee, Quakers, religion, Republican, slavery, Supreme Court, Ted Cruz
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Recovery for Occupy Wall Street’s library
In the weeks that Occupy Wall Street created a protest village in lower Manhattan, activists put together a lending library of more than 5,000 volumes. When the police cleared the demonstrators out of Zuccotti Park, contractors hauled all of the … Continue reading
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Tagged civil liberties, democracy, freedom of speech, law, library, litigation, Michael Bloomberg, Norman Siegel, Occupy Wall Street, police, repression
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