Jay Ulfelder

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Research project manager at Nonviolent Action Lab, Ash Center, Harvard Kennedy School. Posting in my individual capacity.

Mostly working on Crowd Counting Consortium (CCC) with Erica Chenoweth (Harvard) and Jeremy Pressman (UConn) and a rotating cast of RAs. Making and analyzing open event data on political protest activity across the U.S.

Mixed-methods social scientist. Antifascist.

he/him

#protest #democracy #ContentiousPolitics #SocialMovements #PoliticalScience #rstats

CCC GitHub repohttps://github.com/nonviolent-action-lab/crowd-counting-consortium
dormant bloghttps://dartthrowingchimp.wordpress.com/
mostly-accurate Wikipedia shadowhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Ulfelder

We're launching a new initiative! The Anti-Repression Talks: a series of sessions to encourage discussion of surveillance and security issues within and between informal anarchist networks, on an international level.

Each session will focus on a topic and last three months. During a session, we encourage participants to form local study groups to discuss the session topic; we provide resources and discussion points. At the end of a session, we host an online chat where all participants can anonymously gather and talk.

The first session starts in October, and its topic is: Preparing for Physical Surveillance.

Pictured: an excerpt from the session announcement, presenting the session topic.

More information here:
https://notrace.how/blog/preparing-for-physical-surveillance/preparing-for-physical-surveillance.html
http://i4pd4zpyhrojnyx5l3d2siauy4almteocqow4bp2lqxyocrfy6prycad.onion/blog/preparing-for-physical-surveillance/preparing-for-physical-surveillance.html

Anti-Repression Talks #1: Preparing for Physical Surveillance | No Trace Project

No Trace Project

Listen to Paul Passavant talk masterfully about how and why protest policing has gotten more violent over the past few decades, and how this relates to the harsh crackdowns we've seen on campus protests over the past year.

#protest #police #podcast #ContentiousPolitics #Sociology #politics
https://ash.harvard.edu/articles/episode-7-policing-protests/

Episode 7: Policing Protests – Ash Center

Ash Center
Seattle Is Never Coming Back: Reflections on the DNC

Share This: twitter facebook A critical look at the recent demonstrations in solidarity with Palestine at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in so-called Chicago. Originally posted to Lake Effect. The Democratic National Convention descended on Chicago during the last week

Anarchist Federation
Is "compassionate nihilism" a thing? It's me, at least.

I spoke last week with Bridget Conley of the World Peace Foundation at Tufts University about our work tracking pro-Palestinian protests across the U.S. and the remarkable persistence of this broad and diverse movement.

#protest #Gaza #Palestine

https://worldpeacefoundation.org/blog/studying-pro-palestine-protests/

Tracking the Pro-Palestinian protect movement: Interview with Jay Ulfelder - World Peace Foundation

Bridget Conley interviews Jay Ulfelder, who has been tracking protests in the US, about his insights on the pro-Palestine movement.

World Peace Foundation
What stage of capitalism is this?

New post up on the Ash Center site, talking about the resumption of student activism in solidarity with Palestinians as school restarts. Looooots of campuses with new restrictions on "expressive activity," and lots of students and staff already probing or ignoring those boundaries.

#protest #gaza #Palestine

https://ash.harvard.edu/articles/the-student-palestine-solidarity-movement-resumes/

The Student Palestine Solidarity Movement Resumes – Ash Center

Ash Center
@kiwi Leaded gas? lol
If you think it’s a bad idea to let a megalomaniac billionaire amass state-like powers, hooo boy….wait until you hear about state powers.
@kiwi The Gordon Gecko generation? Old enough to have drunk from the prosperity cup before it went dry, young enough to have idolized yuppies instead of hippies. I dunno. I'm smack in the middle of that window and mad as hell at my cohort.