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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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Rittenhouse and more: verdicts versus signals
Courts decide cases, not causes. On the surface, the acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse in Kenosha was only about a kid with an assault weapon who killed two men and maimed another. The jury, considering two weeks of testimony, videotapes, lawyers’ … Continue reading
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Tagged Ahmaud Arbery, AR-15, Brunswick, courts, Georgia, guns, justice, Kenosha, Kyle Rittenhouse, protest, Wisconsin
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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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Are the Open-Up protests winning? What does winning mean? COVID-19
Dramatic, often confrontational, protests by small groups to “open up” seem to be working. The protests certainly haven’t enjoyed the support of most Americans. A substantial majority of Americans oppose a quick lifting of restrictions on public life and are … Continue reading
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Tagged business, California, CDC, courts, COVID-19, Donald Trump, Gretchen Whitmer, guns, masks, Michigan, Ohio, open up, public opinion, vaccines, Wisconsin
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Protest is contagious; where we are….
The first picture is of a open up protest at the Wisconsin state capitol in Madison, on August 24, featuring a turnout estimated at a couple of thousand people, certainly one of the largest turnouts at these protests so far. … Continue reading
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Tagged contagion, COVID-19, demonstration effect, diffusion, Madison, nurses, open up, Wisconsin
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Organizing or Astroturf?
Critics of the scattered “Open Up” protests were quick to circulate a fine article from the Washington Post describing how three brothers committed to gun rights had launched Facebook accounts to promote the protests. The story, told by Isaac Stanley-Becker … Continue reading
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Tagged Aaron Dorr, Ben Dorr, Christopher Dorr, Donald Trump, Facebook, guns, Koch Brothers, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, tea party, Wisconsin
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Opportunistic Advocacy (1/x); COVID-19 (4/x)
Effective advocates don’t want to waste a crisis. They try to photobomb into public attention to advance their concerns. Sometimes, it’s a clear fit–in direct response to the challenges of the moment; sometimes, they fly a long favored reform or … Continue reading
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Tagged abortion, advocacy, Ammon Bundy, Cliven Bundy, conservative, coronavirus, courts, COVID-19, Daniel Kelly, guns, Idaho, Jill Karofsky, Milwaukee, Ohio, opportunities, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Texas, voting, Wisconsin
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A global explosion of people power?
Last year, 2019, the editors of The Big Q, a very cool blog sponsored by the University of Auckland, asked me to write about the seeming explosion of protest movements globally. This is what I thought, reposted below (non-American spelling … Continue reading
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Tagged 15-M, Arab Spring, causes, Chile, constituencies, diffusion, Ecuador, France, global, Greta Thunberg, Haiti, Hong Kong, Iran, Iraq, Karl Marx, Madison, North Korea, Occupy, Pakistan, Parkland, South Africa, Spain, Tahrir Square, The Communist Manifesto, Tiananmen Square, Tunisia, Venezuela, Wisconsin
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Protest, violence, and the Trump campaign
Selling himself as a man of action, not bound by law, conventional standards, or “political correctness”–whatever that is, Donald Trump is determined to keep control of his events, even if that includes letting his supporters or staff lose control. Trump … Continue reading
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Tagged campaigns, countermovements, Donald Trump, elections, Janesville, Paul Ryan, pepper spray, rallies, violence, Wisconsin
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Cesar Chavez Day, 2016
I hadn’t realized that today was Cesar Chavez Day until I arrived at a campus mostly empty and locked. In fact, it’s not Cesar Chavez Day in California or the United States–that’s next week–but just on campus, so it doesn’t … Continue reading
Movement overreach in Michigan
Michigan Governor Rick Snyder blamed the unions when he signed legislation designed to devastate them. He said that he had no intention of pursuing “right to work” legislation in his state, because it would be controversial and divisive. The last … Continue reading
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Tagged ALEC, Americans for Prosperity, countermovements, Indiana, Koch Brothers, labor, Michigan, Ohio, recall elections, referendum, Rick Snyder, right to work, Scott Walker, unions, Wisconsin
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