shouting loudly

Here’s a letter I’ve just sent to my city councilmember, Stephen Levin, and Mayor Bloomberg: Dear Councilmember Levin, I am a voter in your district and I am writing to express my deep and utter outrage at the NYPD’s documented mistreatment of peaceful protesters. This is already a long-established and shameful part of NYPD’s legacy, [...]

This weekend was the #occupywallst protest in New York.  Micah White has another post up at The Guardian’s blog, labeling it a grand success.  Others (including myself) are not so sure.  The stated public expectation was that 20,000 protesters would arrive, form a tent city, and hold Wall St for several weeks.  Instead, a few [...]

Apparently, the folks from AdBusters will be descending on Wall Street tomorrow afternoon to, I dunno, create a big revolution.  I hadn’t heard about it in over a month, which doesn’t bode well.  I’m not on the uber-radical listservs, but I’m on plenty of progressive lists.  There has been no publicity beyond the extreme left [...]

This blog post is going to be more fellow-academics oriented than most of what I write for Shouting Loudly.  I review a lot of early work – both as a conference discussant and as a peer reviewer for journals.  I’ve noticed a few trends in the digital politics literature that, frankly, bug the hell out [...]

There was a Republican debate last night.  I only caught part of it (not to worry, there will be dozens more before a single primary vote is cast). This one was remarkable for its sponsors: it was cohosted by CNN and the Tea Party.  Audience questions came from “real tea party activists.”  These, unsurprisingly, were [...]