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American Resistance Is Arriving
While preorders of advanced copies are being delivered, I’m still working on scheduling events around the US to discuss American Resistance. Check out the current schedule of events for the next few months. If you’re in New York, Princeton, Philadelphia, Washington DC, Atlanta, Denver, Boulder, or Toronto, definitely come out! I’m still booking events so reach…
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Watching Youth Climate Resistance Spread
Late last week, Greta Thunberg arrived in the US to participate in the events around Climate Week that will coincide with climate-related meetings at the United Nations on 23-29 September. Before the festivities get underway, a whole week of climate resistance is scheduled, including the #GlobalClimateStrike on 20th September. The Strike is expected to draw…
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The Calm Before the Storm
Last week, I presented sections of the American Resistance and work related to the project at the annual sociology meetings. Here’s a photo from a video of me talking about posting papers related to the book. I’m enjoying a bit of calm before American Resistance officially comes out on November 5th (remember that you can…
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Word Mapping American Resistance
While reviewing the index for American Resistance, I realized that it provides some interesting data for thinking about the Resistance (and the contents of the book). Here is a word cloud made up of the most common words/phrases in the index. The size of the word or phrase is based on how many times it…
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Even More Resistance
Last Friday night, the Lights for Liberty vigils swept across the country. Now that my colleagues at the Crowd Counting Consortium have estimated turnout (up to 120,080 people at 692 vigils around the US), I thought that I should update my figure of Resistance in the Streets since the 2018 midterm elections. Here’s the updated…
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The Youth Climate Movement is Made up of Children of the #Resistance
Today is the kickoff of the Youth Climate Summit in Miami, which aims to “uplift the citizens of Miami, and train more young people to be effective climate justice advocates.” My new piece in the Monkey Cage at the Washington Post presents data from my recent survey of young climate activists, showing how those participating in…
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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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