Cesar Chavez scandal drives home why BLM, Occupy and Indivisible don’t rely on icons
Cesar Chavez scandal drives home why BLM, Occupy and Indivisible don’t rely on icons
- March 22, 2026
- David Meyer, sociology, The San Francisco Chronicle, Yahoo News, March 22, 2026
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“There are comparable or similar horrors in basically every American institution in our history: politics, religion, business, academia, entertainment, media,” said David Meyer, a professor of sociology at UC Irvine and author of “How Social Movements (Sometimes) Matter.” “So you wouldn’t expect interest groups and social movements to be all that different, even if they claim that they want to be.”
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