Uranan Kou Yang
SOC 122 TTh 5:30-6:45pm
4/26/16
Special Report: Voices from Puerto Rico's Students Leading an Anti-Austerity Movement
The article discusses the demonstration of Puerto Rican college students who are protesting austerity measures they say endanger their education system. Students at the University of Puerto Rico campus in Bayamon voted to begin a 72 hour strike. There other Universities in Puerto Rico that has started to shut down their campus. According to some of the students the government of Puerto Rico has not been distributing the money equally. They even say that the money is being taken out of institutions to pay debt, which is putting a freeze on funding for the University of Puerto Rico's budget. They also say that due to a lack of funds the University of Puerto Rico has begun eliminating professors and courses, which is interfering with students graduating. In order for this to stop the students has voiced their opinion to invoke the constitution of Puerto Rico that gives the number one priority, which is paying for the service of debt. The theory that is highlighted in this article would be framing, because the students are voicing their opinions on the unequal distribution of money that the government is doing to the Universities of Puerto Rico.
Black Lives Matter vs. the LAPD: Are the Police Unfairly Targeting & Surveilling the Movement?
In this article they discuss about a past event in Los Angeles where a certain amount of activists for the Black Lives Matter movement was arrested. They were arrested and charged for barricading the 101 freeway in November 2014. Supporters of the Blacks Live matter feel that the prosecution is part of an effort by LAPD and City Attorney's Office targeting and surveying the leaders of the movement. Through political opportunity the LAPD waited for the right moment to disrupt the movement and arrest important people of Black Lives Matter.
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