#ETEvoke | Omar Wasow, Professor, University of California, Berkeley, speaking to Srijana Mitra Das, discusses the past — and future — of movements encompassing #America ’s current #protests tinyurl.com/ymcs3exq
Omar Wasow | @[email protected] UC Berkeley Dr Srijana Mitra Das

#ETEvoke | Omar Wasow, Professor, University of California, Berkeley, speaking to Srijana Mitra Das, discusses the past — and future — of movements encompassing #America ’s current #protests tinyurl.com/ymcs3exq
Omar Wasow | @[email protected] UC Berkeley Dr Srijana Mitra Das

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My research on 1960s civil rights protests found that, on average, heavy-handed tactics by authorities against protesters helped to build sympathy for the activist’s cause.

A sobering counter example, though, is the polling following Kent State:

.Omar Wasow | @[email protected] cool story, bro. Students couldn’t just be fed up with genocide and being gaslit by clowns like yourself.

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Peter Moskos My extremely simplistic reading of Omar Wasow | @[email protected] 's work is that public sympathy generally shifts towards whichever side of the protest is the victim rather than perpetrator of violence

We spoke with Omar Wasow | @[email protected] about how recent protests fit into a long history of student-led human rights activism on campus. More here: capitalbnews.org/black-student-…

This is a good discussion between Derek Thompson and political scientist Omar Wasow | @[email protected] on the topic of protests and movements and what determines their success or failure on their own terms. open.spotify.com/episode/4u2qga…

Polisci finds elite cues play major role shaping mass opinion. Dan Gillion’s book, The Loud Minority, suggests another pathway: protests also serve as an informative cue to members of allied coalition. So, even if overall opinion is mixed, watch opinion among Dems over time.

Philippe Berry Omar Wasow | @[email protected] On ne peut que s’indigner, protester contre la politique de colonisation expansionniste en Cisjordanie toutefois la même jeunesse ne semble pas vraiment s’indigner des conditions de vie imposées par leurs dirigeants aux populations palestiniennes dans et hors territoires 🤔

Mobilisation pro-Palestine : comment la fièvre des campus a gagné toute l’Amérique. Un mouvement qui illustre la fracture politique et générationnelle des États-Unis sur le Proche-Orient. Décryptage avec Omar Wasow | @[email protected], enseignant-chercheur à Berkeley.
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I am curious: social science friends - any evidence hostile protests work? In addition to Omar Wasow | @[email protected] on why they didn't in 68, Gethin & Pons also pessimistic: nber.org/papers/w32342 Protests on popular issues not implemented by policy do seem to work, but that isn't current case.

We spoke with Omar Wasow | @[email protected] about how recent protests fit into a long history of student-led human rights activism on campus. More here: capitalbnews.org/black-student-…

Omar Wasow | @[email protected] x.com/malaiseforever…

My research on focused on how 1960s protests can influence media, public opinion, elite rhetoric and voting behavior.

Importantly, though, not all protests are media-focused. Some have local targets and are effective by changing those local institutions (as example below shows)

For more on Dan Gillion’s work, see: penntoday.upenn.edu/news/qa-daniel…

I had a rich, probing conversation with Omar Wasow | @[email protected] about the sonorous echoes between our past and our present when it comes to social justice movements. capitalbnews.org/black-student-…

Omar Wasow | @[email protected] content.time.com/time/magazine/…