Tag: protest
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Remaining Awake through this Social Revolution
Lessons from MLK that can help guide us in these precarious times: In honor of Dr. King, I want to talk today about one of his lesser known speeches: a commencement address he delivered at Oberlin College in June 1965 (so over 60 years ago). The title of the address is “Remaining Awake Through a…
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NoKings 2.0 Brings Joyful Resistance Across the US
On October 18th, a coalition of left-leaning political groups coordinated a second national day-of-action to declare that the US has No Kings. Almost 3,000 events took place across the US during this second NoKings Day, with early estimates predicting that over 5 million people had joined the day of action in the US (with many…
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What We Learned Studying the #NoKings Day Across the US
One of the challenges of studying protest in this era of distributed activism is that it’s extremely difficult to get a decent sample of who is participating across sites. When my team surveys at a large-scale protest event, like the Women’s March in Washington, DC in January 2017, we are only able to generalize our…
Dana R Fisher 