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Occupy Irvine
I took my seven year old daughter to Occupy Irvine, a part of Occupy Orange County, on the lawn in front of City Hall on Saturday. What follows is just one report on one relatively small event out of...
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Irvine City Council adopts Occupation
City governments have options in dealing with dissent, including the Occupy campaigns. In Irvine, the heart of Orange County where I live, the City Council unanimously endorsed an agreement that will...
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Patriotic conflict at UC-Irvine unflagging
Amazingly, national interest in the flag conflict at the University of California, Irvine, where I teach, is unwavering. More than a few people seem to think that there is political mileage in beating...
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The Mizzou moment: Student activism beyond Missouri
Protest at Ithaca College When activists see a tactic that seems to be producing results, they’ll imitate it. Innovation spreads ideas that seem to work. The ousting of University of Missouri Timothy...
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After the fall….what kind of protest follows?
I wrote yesterday’s post about concession speeches when I assumed, having steeped myself in all the aggregators and prognosticators I could find, that Hillary Clinton was going to win, and that Donald...
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The Parkland kids visit UCI
OK, it’s not strictly accurate to call them all kids anymore; some are in college now, and most are old enough to vote. More than that, in spite of the tragedy they’ve lived through–or maybe partly...
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Moblizing Ideas, a blog that Notre Dame’s Center for the Study of Social Movements maintains, commissioned a series on youth activism–way before most of us were tuned into the way the #coronacrisis...
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