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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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Tag Archives: violence
An athletes’ boycott is a strike for racial justice.
It’s not like the racial justice protests stopped; they just stopped getting as much attention, particularly if activists were disciplined and not destructive. And racialized police violence certainly didn’t stop, as the taped police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, … Continue reading
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Tagged boycott, Colin Kaepernick, countermovement, Doc Rivers, George Hill, Greg Popovich, guns, Jacob Blake, Kenosha, LeBron James, Milwaukee Bucks, Orlando Magic, police, race, Stephen Curry, Sterling Brown, Steve Kerr, strike, twitter, violence, Washington Mystics, Wisconsin
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Why #JusticeforGeorge spurred a national movement
Certainly the Minneapolis police officer who crushed George Floyd’s neck with his knee, or the three other officers who stood by as it happened, had no sense that they’d face punishment, much less spark a national campaign against racial violence. … Continue reading
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Tagged #blacklivesmatter, Ahmaud Arbery, Amadou Diallo, Bree Newsome, Breonna Taylor, Colin Kaepernick, COVID-19, Donald Trump, Emmett Till, Eric Garner, Ezell Ford, George Floyd, Mike Brown, Minneapolis, Oscar Grant, police, racism, South Carolina, Trayvon Martin, violence
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Police, provocation, and protest
Bad policing poked an old open wound in American life, one that had suffered continual poking and scratching over the past few weeks, months, years, and turned thousands of people out into the streets in protest. Bad policing of the … Continue reading
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Tagged agents provocateur, antifa, countermovements, courts, COVID-19, Flint, Genesee County, George Floyd, Kansas City, Michigan, Minneapolis, police, prosecution, race, Santa Cruz, social control, violence, white nationalism
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How activists should respond to the racist right: 3. ignore them (sheetcake)
The fish that always rises to the bait doesn’t live very long or very well. (Another entry in the series I started a month ago; you can find part 2 and part 1.) The racist right feeds on the (justified) outrage of … Continue reading
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Tagged Berkeley, Charlottesville, free speech, Milo Yiannopoulos, racism, Robert E. Lee, sheet cake, Tina Fey, University of California, violence, Virginia
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Politicize this tragedy
Gun control supporters need to respond to the awful Las Vegas shooting with the same speed and focus the police showed in response to the shooter. Before the FBI and police have finished conducting their investigations and cleaning up the … Continue reading
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Tagged 2nd amendment, critical event, Donald Trump, firearms, gun control, guns, Las Vegas, Mitch McConnell, NRA, shooting, silencers, violence
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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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How activists should respond to the racist right: 1. nonviolent counterdemonstrations
Of course it’s heartening to see 40,000 explicitly anti-racist demonstrators turn out in Boston (August 20), dwarfing the assembly they were protesting against. Was it the best approach to countering white nationalist mobilization advancing in response to Trump adminstration policies … Continue reading
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Tagged antiracism, arrests, Boston, Boston Common, Charlottesville, countermovement, discipline, Donald Trump, free speech, KKK, Nazis, nonviolence, organization, police, racism, violence, white nationalism
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How Trump encourages and provokes political violence
Donald Trump has done great damage to more than his presidency. With his remarks about the tragedy in Charlottesville, Trump dramatically increased the nourishment and encouragement he has been feeding the racist right. Activists respond to signals, and racist right … Continue reading
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Tagged antifa, Charlottesville, Confederate, David Duke, Donald Trump, guns, Lost Cause, monuments, Nazi, police, racism, Richard Spencer, signals, twitter, violence, white nationalism
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Free speech on campus? Provocation and protest.
Berkeley has become the indispensable stop on the right-wing lecture circuit. Antifa (anti-fascist) groups in the Bay Area now reliably turn up on campus to try to make sure offensive ideas don’t pass unchallenged. Oakland Antifa has already announced a … Continue reading
Protest in the Trump era, part 1 of….
Donald Trump’s opponents didn’t wait for his election, much less his inauguration, to take to the streets. As candidate and president-elect, Trump has been consistent in provoking organized protest. Over the past few days, activists have staged creative, disruptive, and … Continue reading
