What do inauguration protesters hope to accomplish?
What do inauguration protesters hope to accomplish?
- January 19, 2017
- David Meyer, sociology, in The Christian Science Monitor and Yahoo! News, Jan. 19, 2017
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An event like the Women’s March on Washington, which is expected to attract as many as 200,000 protesters, "only makes a difference, and only makes sense, in the context of a larger social movement campaign," says David Meyer, a sociology professor at the University of California, Irvine. "But in the context of a larger social movement campaign, events like this matter."
For the full story, please visit http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2017/0119/What-do-inauguration-protesters-hope-to-accomplish.
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