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Month: July 2016

Defining Protest and Protest Events

July 16, 2016 Pamela Oliver Research on protest & social movements, Social Movements

Does protest help a group’s cause? Do cities with strong Black protest movements improve their policing practices in Black communities? Do police respond more repressively in places with strong Black movements? Does mass incarceration reduce the capacity for Black protest? To answer these questions, we need to know how to

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Videos for activists from social movement scholars

July 14, 2016 Pamela Oliver Social Movements

The Mobilizing Ideas blog has partnered with Jenn Earl’s Youth Activism Project which (as the name implies) studies activism by younger people) to provide advice to young activists by way of videos of top social movement scholars addressing important issues in organizing, supplemented with suggestions for further reading. The series

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Some thoughts about building community trust of police

July 8, 2016 Pamela Oliver Criminal justice, Police

A local reporter sent me an email asking my opinion of proposals to increase community trust of police. My “some general comments” turned out to be really long, so I decided to put them in a blog post. Then I edited it a bit more. As I write, this has

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