CriticalMassBulletin Newsletter of the Section on Collective Behavior and Social Movements, American Sociological Association Volume 43 (1) http://cbsm-asa.org/ Spring 2018 2017-2018 Section Officers Chair Message from the Chair Jennifer Earl Chair-Elect Jennifer Earl Jo Reger CBSM Section Chair Past Chair Andy Andrews Professor of Sociology University of Arizona Secretary/Treasurer Jocelyn Viterna Council Edward Walker One of the great pleasures and responsibilities of chairing Neal Caren the section is helping to plan the annual meeting sessions John Krinsky Ziad Munson and reception. This year, we have a great line-up! First, I Amin Ghaziani want to highlight our section reception, which will take Lisa Leitz place offsite at the City Tap Room at Logan Square (there is another location of the Committees Mentoring (appointed) City Tap Room, so please don’t go to the other one). It should be a great opportunity Deana Rohlinger for us to get together and enjoy a drink or two. Soma Chaudhuri Dana Moss Saturday 6:30-8:10pm, Section on Collective Behavior and Social Nominations Rachel Einwohner Movements Reception, City Tap House, 2 Logan Square. David G. Ortiz Co-sponsored by the journal, Contention. Catherine Corrigall-Brown Publications Chair: Drew Halfmann I want to thank a co-sponsor of the event (more co-sponsors will be announced over Joshua Bloom the summer), the journal Contention, edited by Benjamin Abrams and published by Kyle Dodson Berghahn (see: http://journals.berghahnbooks.com/contention/). The first four Workshop Melissa Wooten volumes of the journal are available online through an open access policy, and the Alison Adams journal will be offering special access tokens for CBSM members near annual Ana Velitchkova meetings time for more recent issues so you can learn more about the journal, so stay Membership tuned for more on that. The mission of the journal is allied with our section’s mission: Selina Gallo-Cruz Nicole Fox Edelina Burciaga In This Issue Callie Liu Watkins Maria Mora Message from the Chair . 1 Jeff Larson Cecelia Walsh-Russo The Future of #Resistance . 3 Devparna Roy Candlelight Protests in South Korea . 4 Melissa Wooten Progressive Religion and the Women’s March on Chicago . 5 Webmaster Virginia Indivisible Local Groups. 6 Alex DiBranco Recent Publications . 8 Newsletter Editors Art of the March: International Women’s March Sign Archive . 10 Stacy Williams Daniel McClymonds CBSM-Related Events at ASA 2018 . 10 Please send all your ideas, feedback, and submissions to [email protected]. “Contention is a journal dedicated to work on social Please check out the listings at the end of the protest and political action. The journal publishes newsletter for a much wider array of relevant panels, work on collective action, social movements, including regular session panels and panels organized revolutions, and other forms of social and political by other sections but still related to CBSM research! contention. Our core mission is to enhance our collective understanding of these phenomena, I also wanted to update you on some work that your drawing together work across academic and applied council and officers have been doing for the section. disciplines.” First, at a Spring phone conference, Council voted to move to a multi-year budgeting model and adopted a I also want to highlight the panels that are officially set of spending priorities to help guide our current sponsored by our section (for more information on Council and future councils in budgeting. While not these panels, including organizers, papers and/or binding future councils, this budgeting model allows panelists, and presiders and discussants, please check each council to see not only its spending against its out the listings at the end of the newsletter): own revenues but also allows each council to forecast the impacts of current spending and/or savings on our Sunday 8:30-10:10am: Beyond the Civil long-term budget, including location-specific Rights Paradigm: Inter-sectional Dynamics in estimates for annual meeting costs for future years. Movements for Racial Justice (Co-sponsored Since some meeting locations are more expensive with Section on Racial and Ethnic than others, this will allow section leaders to budget Minorities). Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, so that they can build up surpluses to help offset Franklin Hall 12, Level 4. more expensive years. The spending priorities also set up goals of the section that allow the section to Sunday 10:30am-12:10pm: Methodological make more informed decisions about its spending. Advances in Research on Social Movements. Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Franklin We are also working on a longer term development 13, Level 4. plan for the section. The section currently has an on- going relationship with the Contentious Politics Sunday 12:30-2:10pm: Political series from Cambridge University Press, which funds Communication and Social Movements. the Dissertation Award. This year, Mobilization will Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Franklin be co-sponsoring the Mayer Zald Student Paper. As I Hall 9, Level 4, mentioned above, Contention will be co-sponsoring the section’s ASA reception. We hope further Sunday 2:30-3:30pm: CBSM Refereed institutionalize some of these relationships and Roundtable Session. Philadelphia Marriott develop new relationships as they help amplify the Downtown, Salon G, Level 5. section’s capacities to facilitate and recognize great Sunday 3:30-4:10: CBSM Business Meeting, work and also help connect section members with Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Salon G, great publishing outlets! Level 5. I look forward to writing next time more about these Monday 8:30-10:10am: Non-State Opposition internal developments and also about section awards. to and Suppression of Social Movements. Our next round of officers should be announced in Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Franklin early June. Our awards committees are hard at work Hall 7, Level 4. and winners should be announced by mid-June. Monday 10:30am-12:10pm: Revisiting Have a great summer and I am looking forward to Threats and Grievances in the Trump Era. seeing you at the ASAs! Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Franklin Hall 6, Level 4. 2 Eruptions of activism continued after the election, as more volatile demonstrations broke out in a few large Thanks to Contention for cities such as New York and San Francisco, co-sponsoring this year’s accompanied by failed efforts to persuade members CBSM Reception at the of the Electoral College to claim their own ASAs! independence and keep the threat to American For more information about institutions out of office. On the rainy inaugural day, the journal and previous hundreds of unpermitted demonstrators took to the issues, please visit: streets of Washington, DC, some smashing windows www.berghahnjournals.co and scuffling with police. The next day, at the m/contention Women’s March, hundreds of thousands of people, some nattily attired with pink pussy hats, filled the submission guidelines, National Mall, as millions turned out in opposition in please see: cities and town across the country. Submission Guidelines What are we to make of all of this? It’s striking that the #Resistance has provided a unifying face to an exceptionally broad range of people and causes. Champions of the environment and LGBTIA rights are, for the moment, united with The Future of #Resistance defenders of the integrity and autonomy of the FBI and deficit hawks, presenting a movement joined David S. Meyer, University of California, Irvine mostly by a shared antipathy to, and fear of, the Sydney Tarrow, Cornell University Trump presidency. Not only are people united across causes, but they are also cooperating for the moment The rapid response of what’s come to be called the in the face of wildly disparate goals. Most notably, #Resistance to Donald Trump startled both some are turning out to save the institutions of liberal supporters and opponents; perhaps its resilience—at pluralism from a clear and present danger, while least thus far, has been even more surprising. The others want to tear down the institutions that the new diverse campaigns on so many issues focused on the president sits atop. This makes for an uneasy alliance dangers of the current regime have given us cause for at best, and one that will become even less stable as it optimism as citizens. They’ve also given us, as makes political progress. [Note: The Coalition scholars of social movements, a series of analytical Challenge.] challenges and a rapidly growing mound of material. To address those challenges, we set out to unite a We’re particularly curious about the future of the collection of analysts of movements across #Resistance, whether it will indeed substantially disciplines and methods to try to make sense of the constrain and limit the Trump presidency, whether it movement growing around us. The effort produced will herald a new era of Democratic governance, or The Resistance: The Emergence of the Movement whether its impact will be limited to a restoration of against President Donald Trump. the polarized and stalled politics that immediately preceded it. [The Outcomes Challenge.] Election Day protests against newly elected presidents are now a routine part of life, but Donald The breadth of the #Resistance is relatively Trump generated something bigger. [Note: The easy to understand. Well-established organizations Political Opportunity Challenge.] First, the protests concerned with threatened groups, such as champions started during the campaign, as Black Lives Matter of minority rights, social welfare spending, and the demonstrators and others turned up at Trump rallies environment, have rightly recognized that their best to challenge the candidate and his supporters. prospects for audiences and responsiveness lay 3 outside mainstream national political institutions. Those institutions were set up to favor the defense, Candlelight Protests in South that is, those opposed to the proposed change of the Korea moment.