Discussion Paper #1

Maritza Guerrero

SOC 122 M/W 10:00 pm

15 May 2018

Discussion paper #1

Story 1-

https://www.democracynow.org/2018/2/14/v_day_global_movement_to_stop

Story 1 continued- https://www.democracynow.org/2018/2/14/v_day_special_global_activists_on

https://www.democracynow.org/2018/2/12/judges_across_us_are_halting_trumps

`The first story, on February 14, is on the V-Day movement and its 20th anniversary. This story features three women that speak on the movement and share their thoughts on them and questions host Amy Goodman asks on the movement. These three women come from different parts of the world and all play a significant role in the V-Day movement. They are Christine Schuler Deschryver, Rada Borić, and Agnes Pareyio. The movement is to bring attention to women that face violence globally, and as mentioned from Amy Goodman, was a movement that was brought up from famous play "The Vagina Monologues" by Eve Ensler. Some of the women touched on Donald Trump, and injustices that they face in their country or continent. For one, Rada Boric stated that those in power in Europe "hide" the fact when a staff does an act of violence against women. Agnes Pareyio touches on female genital mutilation in her country, but in a light of this issue, she is actively involved helping women due to her safe houses where women go to be protected from things such as genital mutilation.

The second story deals with immigration rights. With President Donald Trump wanting immigrants deported, a lot of activist for the immigration movement have been getting arrested at events. Speakers speak on this problem of activist fighting for immigration rights who getting arrested which Ravi Ragbir, immigrants rights leader, mentions on is being done by ICE to create fear. The story also entails the rights that immigrants have due to ICE wanting to deport them. Lee Gelernt, deputy director of the ACLU Immigrants' Rights Project, touches on this explaining how immigrants have "due process rights," which is going against Trump's administration of wanting to deport them without going through that process. To conclude, Gelernt argues for immigrants rights to let immigrants go through the fair trail of due process.