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Resistance Since the Midterms
Tomorrow, a coalition of progressive groups are organizing #CloseTheCamps demonstrations to take place outside local Congressional offices around the country. This event, which was announced on June 28th, is the most recent act of national resistance since the midterm elections in November 2018. This figure shows some of the biggest protests since the midterms. These…
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Resistance Continues Aiming to #StopTheBans
Yesterday, in response to a series of laws passed in states that restricted women’s access to abortion, people took to the streets once again. A coalition of groups including Reproductive Rights-focused organizations like NARAL and Planned Parenthood and more general political groups like ACLU, Indivisible, Move On and Swing Left worked together on the #StopTheBans …
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American Resistance is (almost) available
The book is in press at Columbia University Press and, as of today, you can pre-order it through the American Resistance page over at the publisher’s website. If you order through the publisher (as opposed to say, Amazon), the publisher is offering a 30% discount on the book. Just use the code “CUP30” at checkout.…
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Looking at Youth Resistance
The American Resistance is highly educated, female, and mostly white. It is also predominantly middle- aged people. As the Resistance has marched in the streets and participated in events in Congressional districts and communities around the country, we have witnessed young people getting increasingly involved in activism as well. Since the school shooting in Parkland,…
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The Public face of American Resistance
After a lot of fiddling with my protest t-shirts, the fine folks at Columbia University Press decided to go in a completely different direction. Here is the (very likely) cover for American Resistance! Stay tuned for information about upcoming talks and pre-orders should be available very soon.
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American Resistance Marches into Production
While the world turns and attention focuses on what might be in the Mueller Report, American Resistance has gone to press at Columbia University Press. Sadly, the Report upstaged the 1 year anniversary of the March for Our Lives in much of the media (as well as the terrible news about some survivors of gun violence). …
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The Resistance in Election 2020
It’s still super early days, but everyone seems to be asking who is running and who could win. I asked participants at the 2019 Women’s March on January 19th who they would support in 2020. Although many respondents outwardly groaned when they saw the question on the survey, the results are very interesting. Moreover, it’s…
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The 2019 Women’s March Makes it’s Mark
While my colleagues over at the Crowd Counting Consortium keep tabulating how many people participated in the 3rd annual Women’s March, once thing is certain: the Women’s March continues to mobilize people to Resist in the Streets. My new piece over in the Washington Post’s Monkey Cage, highlights the ways that participants in this year’s Women’s March…
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Priorities for the Resistance
Happy 2019! The full revised draft of American Resistance will be going into Columbia University Press this month (so you can imagine what I’ll be doing for the next few weeks). That said, I wanted to share one more overview of findings from the follow-up survey with participants in the Resistance based on my post-2018…
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How Participants in the Resistance worked with Groups?
Participants in the Resistance reported working with numerous groups leading up to the midterm elections and the number had grown substantially in the 6 months before the election (from May to November 2018). The most mentioned groups were the Democratic Party, the Women’s March, MoveOn, Indivisible and the ACLU. There were also very significant differences…
Dana R Fisher 