The Agile Crowds Lab focuses on interdisciplinary research in crowd studies, forms of democracy and/or collectivisms, and the social dynamics of groups.
The Agile Crowds Lab, founded in 2015 by Prof. Judith Paltin and graduate students Jesse Colautti, Karen Correia da Silva, Kyla Drzazgowski, and Virginia Alley Hamilton, focuses on interdisciplinary research in crowd studies, forms of democracy and/or collectivisms, the social dynamics of groups and collectivities, and in particular, on literary-fictional crowds as an underused archive in crowd st
03/06/2021
Trump State Department aide charged with assault in Jan. 6 insurrection at U.S. Capitol A former State Department aide in President Donald Trump’s administration has been charged with participating in the deadly siege at the Capitol and assaulting officers who were try…
12/17/2020
https://twitter.com/ThePlumLineGS/status/1339702863140966401
Greg Sargent on Twitter “Trump employs "political incitement that provokes random acts of extremist violence, in which the instigator uses rhetoric ambiguous enough to give himself and his allies plausible deniability for any resulting bloodshed." talks to experts: https://t.co/YmvIjc3lwa”
12/13/2020
250 million Indian workers and farmers strike, breaking world record DELHI—On Thursday, Nov. 26, India witnessed the biggest organized strike in human history. Over 250 million workers and farmers, along with their allies among student, women’s, and civil society groups, participated in the nationwide strike.
06/07/2020
https://twitter.com/hannah_natanson/status/1269678326538534914?s=20
Hannah Natanson on Twitter “The fence outside the White House has been converted to a crowd-sourced memorial wall — almost like an art gallery — to black men and women who lost their lives at the hands of police. Hundreds are strolling, looking, adding names and paintings and posters. https://t.co/mXlZpfMAeX”
06/03/2020
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/02/us/politics/trump-walk-lafayette-square.html
How Trump’s Idea for a Photo Op Led to Havoc in a Park When the history of the Trump presidency is written, the clash with protesters that preceded President Trump’s walk across Lafayette Square may be remembered as one of its defining moments.
06/02/2020
https://www.npr.org/2020/06/01/867532070/trumps-unannounced-church-visit-angers-church-officials
Peaceful Protesters Tear-Gassed To Clear Way For Trump Church Photo-Op After U.S. Park Police and National Guard troops pushed demonstrators out of Lafayette Park, President Trump walked from the White House to St. John's Church where he posed for pictures with a Bible.
06/02/2020
16 unions hold rooftop protests against mismanagement of pandemic across Punjab The protesters, including women and children, beat utensils and said the government had failed to purchase wheat on time and provide ration to those in need.
05/31/2020
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/05/george-floyd-protests-police-violence.html
Police Erupt in Violence Nationwide From New York to Los Angeles, police officers escalated the national unrest.
05/30/2020
Trump threatens White House protesters with 'vicious dogs and most ominous weapons' President promotes 'MAGA NIGHT' after mass protests call for justice in wake of police killings
05/03/2020
04/12/2020
https://harpers.org/archive/2020/04/how-the-anti-populists-stopped-bernie-sanders/ h/t Robert Tally and Jana Giles
How the Anti-Populists Stopped Bernie Sanders, by Thomas Frank The pessimistic style in American politics