tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7171420941776673660.post7345635470040348092..comments2024-03-28T02:29:13.507-07:00Comments on Legal Ruralism: Women’s march not just for urban folkLisa R. Pruitthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16469550950363542801noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7171420941776673660.post-77064021743375268932018-05-17T05:45:52.156-07:002018-05-17T05:45:52.156-07:00Good-day, I'm Josef Lewis. A reputable, legiti...Good-day, I'm Josef Lewis. A reputable, legitimate & accredited lender. We give out loan of all kinds in a very fast and easy way, Personal Loan, Car Loan, Home Loan, Student Loan, Business Loan, Inventor loan, Debt Consolidation. etc<br /><br />Get approved for a business or personal loans today and get funds within same week of application. These personal loans can be approved regardless of your credit and there are lots of happy customers to back up this claim. But you won’t only get the personal loan you need; you will get the cheapest one. 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Your analysis seems to answer that this is not the case. <br /><br />However, I would still posit that there remain limitations to demonstrations in rural settings that do not exist in urban settings. The commenter above pointed out that in small towns everyone knows your politics so whats the point? While I don't agree with this, it is a salient point. Far-reaching news outlets are not likely to hear about your demonstration and message. The sort of funding and organizational resources useful to "get the ball rolling" are more scarce. The vast majority of these larger marches were organized on Facebook, and Twitter that require accessibility. <br /><br />Institutional barriers, on top of human capital barriers, limit rural demonstrations which make your findings even more remarkable. ofilbrandthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12810491852453390815noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7171420941776673660.post-29268822263297659592017-01-27T16:08:48.911-08:002017-01-27T16:08:48.911-08:00I was watching Full Frontal with Samantha Bee this...I was watching Full Frontal with Samantha Bee this week and I was particularly excited for her coverage of the Women's March. I was expecting it to be full of her usual humor and sarcasm and was looking forward to her jokes about Trump and the "pussy hats." What I was not expecting was for her to play a clip from Fox News (that I would otherwise have never seen) that actually related to this class. Samantha Bee introduced this clip by saying: "There were sister marches from coast to coast. And if you watch Fox, nowhere in between."<br /><br />According to these Fox new anchors and personalities, the Women's March was made up of "[l]iberal people from liberal cities" and happened exclusively in "liberal enclaves." Indeed, one anchor even stated that she was "not sure that is a message that is going to resonate outside liberal cities." <br /><br />As seen by the many smaller sister marches that Kelley pointed out occurred in various conservative, rural, and small cities across the country, these anchors were obviously wrong. Whether they chose to ignore these sister marches so that they would not have to address the fact that the March's message did in fact resonate across the country or because they wanted to downplay the sheer size of these marches is unclear. However, I believe that this clip makes it obvious that even news stations which cater to conservative populations forget to address the concerns and actions of their viewers if they do not live in urban communities. <br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pEcvteQo9g Jennahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14278751715490718989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7171420941776673660.post-20971353889606392842017-01-26T06:59:45.887-08:002017-01-26T06:59:45.887-08:00This post has me thinking about the "Cheers&q...This post has me thinking about the "Cheers" trope of rural places, that they are close-knit and everybody knows your name. It likely follows that everyone knows your politics, too. To the extent this is true, we might be surprised at first to see people rallying to show strength and resistance -- if everyone knows everyone else's politics, what's the point?<br /><br />But the counterpoint is that -- again, to the extent that the trope is accurate and is doing work in these instances -- these folks know where their allies are and do not suffer from the sometimes-paralyzing effects of anonymity. "If I don't march, no one will miss me." "I won't know anyone there." "In a country/state/city as large as ours, my voice won't make a difference."<br /><br />The estimates of 3-4 million marchers in a country of 308 million works out to around one percent of the population, which is staggering. But when we look at 19 people marching in a town of 108, that's more than one-sixth of the population. (And 66 people out of 208 is nearly one-third!)<br /><br />A final thought: the mixed blessing of political action in a depopulated place is that your grassroots turnout is likely to be of the scale that humans are capable of managing. Anthropology -- and common sense -- tell us that discussions work best in small groups and that social structures start to unravel once they exceed a one or two hundred individuals. In that sense, it's better to be an activist in Copper Harbor than in Washington, DC! Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com