Anti-wall street protesters reach 'prime time' with arrests
Anti-wall street protesters reach 'prime time' with arrests
- October 3, 2011
- David Meyer, sociology professor, is quoted in Bloomberg Businessweek and the San Francisco Chronicle October 3, 2011
From Bloomberg Businessweek:
Provoking police is part of protesters' strategy to get noticed, said Michael Heaney,
a political science professor at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor who has researched
social movements.... The arrests on the Brooklyn Bridge may have a bigger effect on
public opinion. "This gets you into the prime time," said David Meyer, a professor
of sociology at the University of California at Irvine and author of "The Politics
of Protest: Social Movements in America." The question activists face is "'How do
you do something that generates news, which doesn't implicate you for being at fault?'
And I guess New York City police were really helpful in this regard."
For the full story, please visit http://news.businessweek.com/article.asp?documentKey=1376-LSGQL40YHQ0X01....
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