Laurel Weldon News Today

​Register here to receive the Zoom link.  While a significant amount of research has examined the conditions giving rise to legal and policy reform on violence against women (VAW), there is less understanding of whether or not new VAW laws have been accompanied by changes in behavior and attitudes. Has the adoption of VAW legislation—a huge priority of feminist movements since the 1970s—produced social change? This seminar will present evidence for a cautiously optimistic assess...

Listen • 4:07 Occupy Wall Street participants march down Fifth Avenue in New York on May 1, 2012. Lingering anger over the 2008 global financial crisis has fueled several populist movements, including most recently, the battle waged by amateur investors coordinating in Reddit against hedge funds. James McCombs was 13 years old in 2008 when he found out the money set aside for his college tuition was gone. "I was old enough to know what was going on, and old enough to hear ...