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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: Occupy
Days of Rage: Is Ferguson spreading out or dissipating?
Inspired by the ongoing events in Ferguson, Anonymous has called for Days of Rage protests across the nation: At least one part of the story here is the reasonably sophisticated use of social media, including Youtube above. The description … Continue reading
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Tagged Anonymous, Chicago, Days of Rage, diffusion, Ferguson, Michael Brown, Occupy, police, police brutality, SNCC, social media, video, violence, Weather Underground, youtube
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Economic inequality is bad (Occupy echoes?)
Don’t trust me on this; that’s what Standard and Poor’s says in a report published on August 5. And S&P doesn’t mention human privation, stalled opportunity, justice, or any other kind of moral or political concern. Rather, S&P claims that … Continue reading
Occupy Maidan
They’re still there. At least some of the protesters who toppled Ukraine’s president Viktor Yanukovich months ago never left the Maidan, Kiev’s public square. According to Steven Zeitchik’s report in this morning’s Los Angeles Times, the overwhelming majority of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Bonus Army, Egypt, Kiev, Occupy, organization, Russia, Tahrir Square, Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovich, Zuccotti Park
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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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Inspiration across borders: Brazil and Turkey
Will a clever name, like Arab Spring or Occupy, link the protests erupting in disparate parts of the globe? Will 2013 become a sign uniting all of them in memory, just like 1848, 1968, and 1989? The spread of wildly … Continue reading
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Tagged 1848, 1968, 1989, 2013, Anonymous, Arab Spring, Brasilia, Brazil, Dilma Rousseff, Guy Fawkes, imitation, Istanbul, Occupy, Occupy Wall Street, Sao Paolo, standing man, Tahrir Square, Taksim Square, Tayyip Erdoğan, Turkey, Zuccotti Park
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Occupy is an unprotected trademark
Sarah Maslin Nir produced a nice piece in the New York Times that identified–and poked at–the ever-increasing diversity of people and groups claiming to be Occupy. After Hurricane Superstorm Sandy hit New York, Occupy activists focused their efforts on helping … Continue reading
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Tagged elections, foreclosure, Keystone, New York, NRA, Occupy, Occupy Sandy, student debt
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Threat, polarization, and mobilization in the gun debate
Until just a few weeks ago, the notion of a policy-relevant debate about access to guns seemed fanciful. Supporters of relatively easy access to firearms of all sorts were resolute, and advocates of limits of any kind were either silent … Continue reading
Occupy in Steubenville, Ohio
Activists in Ohio–and elsewhere–have grabbed the Occupy label to demonstrate their concern that Steubenville authorities (including the police and the high school football coaching staff) are covering up a sexual assault. Using Occupy, Anonymous, the Guy Fawkes mask, hacktivist tools, … Continue reading
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Tagged Anonymous, courts, crime, football, hacktivists, Occupy, Ohio, rape, rape culture, sexual assault, Steubenville, trial, vigilantism
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