Luke Leija Social Movements
Respectfully, Luke Leija
Thursday, May 17, 2018
Tactic Paper #4
Tactic Paper #4: Chalking
For the fourth tactic for my homelessness group, I did chalking. To begin with, I did not follow the instructions asked of us on this tactic. This tactic required that we chalk three times in a span of a month. I did all my chalking sessions in a span of a few days. I did my first chalking on May 12th in the afternoon which went well. I had someone accompany me while I wrote my message in the free speech area near the club booths. I decided to write "Homeless not Worthless #homesforthehomeless" for my first chalking session. It was on a weekend, so not a lot of people were present on campus when I did it, but it was an area I knew a lot of people would pass by and see. My second chalking session was on May 14th and also around the same time as my first session. The same person that came accompanied on my first session also was with me for this session along with my third session. It was on a weekday, therefore, more people were present. I wrote my message in the same general area and the message was "Bring Awareness to the Homeless Crisis in Fresno!" and finished it off by writing a website called realchangefresno.org. This website provides information on homelessness and how to help and bring awareness. My third chalking session was again in the same general area on and was on May 16th. I felt more people were present for this session which made me feel a little discouraged to write my message, but I did and I wrote a message straight to point that said "help the homeless!" I had a difficult time deciding on what to write for the third one the most, and I know that my effort for this one was poor. In fact, my performance in this tactic was not the greatest. I do not think it did anything to build solidarity among the members from my part, and as for altering people's view on the problem, it could have I would hope so! I think it did bring some attention to the cause by simply having people read that it is about homelessness. To conclude, I would change a lot of ways I went with doing this tactic. I think for one, maybe choose a message to write that has people questioning and wondering about the issue. Perhaps a statistic or deep question relating to the issue. Also, I would have had this tactic be a group effort as in we all do one together to show solidarity among the group.Tactic Papers
Hello Dr. Kubal,
These are my tactic papers per request of the syllabus.
Valerie Ochoa
Dr. Kubal
17 May 2018
Chalking Tactic
This tactic was one of my favorite ones to complete because it allowed me to write and draw something that was supposed to grab attention of the spectators walking by. Unfortunately, I only participated in two different days of chalking, but I feel as though my messages were strong and eye catching to the passersby.
The first day for the chalking was the day of the March Forth event. Our group had decided to meet early, that way we could grab enough people's attention to come and join our group and march with us or just participate in the march without supporting women's rights. At first a few of us, including myself, felt uneasy with writing different messages that could be seen as offensive to some. However, after we all wrote one message down, we felt significantly better and were eager to write more. One of my first messages was just an invitation to come and march with our group for women's rights, that way people knew exactly where to go and what they were going to march for. One of my favorites from that day was a play on the song "Feeling Twenty-Two" by Taylor Swift and it read "I don't know about you but I'm feeling 22 cents underpaid." I figured it would grab the attention of the girls who walked by because it was a reference to a song they might know. Our chalking even attracted a fellow student who was just walking by! He had said that he did not know that there were other students who thought like he did. He also showed us a different symbol to draw and it looked the same as the female image, except the cross in the middle was directly below the circle to signify the equality of the two sexes. A few other chalked messages were more invitations to join the march and simple "women's rights are human rights."
The second day for chalking was just a random day picked to get together and complete the task, May 2. At first we were unsure of whether we should even do it, because we did not have the safety cushion of doing it with our classmates around. For me, I chose to go slightly more controversial with my messages. Two of my favorites were "Fight like a girl" and "What she wears doesn't mean yes." I messed up the last message, because I could have made it rhyme with a different choice of words. I felt like I had more fun with this round of chalking because I had already done it before. For this day, I noticed that we had more people stopping to look at our messages, it was a good feeling, because people were getting a different opinion in their minds about what they think about women.
As far as any changes, the only thing I would have changed was the amount of chalking we did as a group and location wise. For the last day of chalking, we only had half of our group show up and participate. For the location, we mostly stayed near the speaker's platform, I would have liked to go to where the McKee Fisk building started and over in the pavillion in the middle of the Social Sciences and Mckee Fisk building are.
Valerie Ochoa
Dr. Kubal
16 May 2018
Social Media Tactic
This tactic should have been one of the easiest complete but for me it was difficult. Unfortunately, for Lent, I logged off of all my social media accounts, but fortunately I had one open and it was my Snapchat. My sister had control over my account to keep up my streaks and to post a picture of the flyer for our movie. Even after posting on my account, I did not receive any responses to the movie about whether people were going to make it or just in support of it. I knew that the people who are my "friends" on Snapchat saw it because it shows along the side of the picture, and I was disappointed to not hear from those who were going to State at the same time as I was. After Lent finished, I got back onto my accounts, I regret to say that I did not post anything again.
It was not until our "leader" Isabela made a Facebook and Instagram account that we really had a page specifically for our group and for our purpose. Even so, our page did not include very many pictures or posts, because it was only the people in our group following the page and maintaining it as well. First of all, our page is misspelt, so it is hard to even find it. Second, our Facebook page has only four of our group as "friends", so we cannot all see the postings and sharings of the page. So not all of us were able to take over the account.
As far as changes, I would make a few of them. My first change would be to go to Twitter to make an account, because more people will hear what you have to say and some will respond to it. Another change would be to let more people know about our group and invite them to look at our page and our message. Another change is that I should not have only limited the people that I reached out, but I wish that I had talked to others about our movie and our group.
Valerie Ochoa
Dr. Kubal
16 May 2018
Interview Questions Tactic
This was one of the harder tactics to complete. For this one, we had to conduct a series of interviews that spanned into two hours with questions that our group came up with. The original idea was to use a call center website to conduct our interviews but our professor decided that we could interview people that we knew over the phone or face to face. For this paper, I just want to focus on my interviews with my father and my friend Helaina.
My father tends to be a little bit on the conservative side when it comes to talking about women's rights and treatment. He was raised in a Catholic household, so naturally he was taught that all lives, no matter the state they are in, are worth something. He does not believe in abortion and we have come to intense arguments over why abortion is right or wrong. When it came to interviewing him, the question that got him a little riled up was " Do you believe that you must be a woman to be a feminist?" He felt like it was a simple answer with a yes answer. As I tried to explain that being a feminist is most about wanting equality for both sexes and you did not have to be a woman to want that he kind of relaxed but he was still against being labeled as a feminist himself.
My friend Helaina was the easiest one to interview for feminism and women's rights since she has gone to marches in San Francisco for them. However, she was also raised in a Catholic household and consequently for Pro-Life. For her, she takes that stance more from the religious aspect, almost as if it was expected of her. Even with that, when I interviewed her, I was pleasantly surprised with how enthusiastic she was about equality in the workplace. She brought up how she felt like she had been discriminated against for a job, but when I tried to probe, she switched it to a different topic and I went with it.
For anything I would change, I think it would be how I conducted my interviews. I do not think I gave my interviewees enough time to talk more about what I asked of them, it was all spur of the moment. I would also change who I interviewed, I interview my friends and family because they are easily accessible, but it would be nice to get a change of opinion.
Valerie Ochoa
Dr. Kubal
16 May 2018
Movie Tactic
Our movie day was terrifying, exciting, and fulfilling all at the same time. For the days leading up to it, we were all nervous and excited at the same time. We were most nervous about the kind of turn out we would get for the movie, for me, it would be my first video presentation of sorts. We had our flyers that looked great, thanks to Isabela Medina, and we made sure to hang them up where we could and to tell our friends about the movie. Unfortunately, none of my friends could make it due to previous plans that day. We all wanted to motivate others to come to our showing, so we decided to have some snacks and refreshments for our movie goers. It was a big help for me that my parents allowed me to tag-a-long on a Costco. run with them, so I could just by a multipack of snacks without spending a large amount of money.
On the day of our movie, March 8th, we were all checking in with each other every hour to make sure we all had what we needed and that we were ready. Since my last class ended fifteen minutes before our movie, I had to try and get to the room as fast as I could, but I got lost and ended up being later than I had hoped. Before we put the movie, She's Beautiful When She's Angry, we made sure to introduce our group's name and purpose and then we went down the line to introduce ourselves. After our movie finished, we held a Q and A session. Since there weren't many individuals in the audience, we didn't expect any questions, but we did get a couple. Our professor, Dr. Kubal, asked us as a group about our reaction to the movie and our thoughts about current events. I talked about how the government had no right to tell us what to do with our bodies since they belong to us and not them.
As far as making any changes for this tactic, I only have a few. I wish that I had played a bigger role in getting people to come to our movie, other than just hanging up a few flyers and asking my group of friends. For our group, we communicated well with each other and we all kept in touch to make sure we all had everything together for our movie and presentation after.
Valerie Ochoa
Dr. Kubal
Soc. 122
14 May, 2018
First Tactic Paper: March Forth Event and 17 Minutes Event
For me, these two protests had a significant part in changing my views on what it is like to protest or to bring attention to a cause that is not being talked about actively. The first protest that I participated in was the March Forth event. I remember things I thought about leading up to the event: I was nervous for my job, I did not know what to expect from my classmates or my group, and I had no prior experience to get a general idea of how this might go. The class before the event, all the groups were tasked to create posters for their cause. My group's cause is focused on bringing Women's Rights into the light and having people notice the inequality that still persists in society. We all made a few signs that had some catchy lingo on them, one of my favorites was "My neck, my back, my p***y will grab back."
The day of the event was hectic. We were all unsure of what was going to happen before, during, and after the event. Before the actual protest, we all stood up on the speaker's platform and had one of our teammates read our mission statement, after this, it seemed like my group got a little jump start. When we were waiting for all the groups to finish their statements, we came up with a couple of chants, and I was chosen to lead them. I am usually uncomfortable leading anything, but with this I was glad that I did it. I actually started to enjoy walking with my group and yelling out our chants. I felt like if we could have had more people marching with us, our mission would have been fulfilled. Sure we had people videotape us, but to get people involved and actually change their mind would have been the best. I think that if we had a larger turn out for our march, we would have made a bigger impact on those who participated.
As far as promoting the event, Dr. Kubal handed out little flyers for us to put around the campus, but I thought that they were too small to gain enough attention to have a big turnout. I had told my group if friends that we were having a small march and that they should come, but they all had classes at the same time, so none of them were able to make it. I do wish that I had played a bigger role in promoting the event, such as sending a notice to the school's paper or just to some of the clubs on campus.
The 17 Minutes to End Gun Violence march was very inspiring, due to the fact that it was organized by high school students. Many of my classmates had heard of this event due to social media sharing and from listening to news stations, I had heard of it from my younger sister, who is still in high school. She had told me that many of the students were going to be allowed to participate in the walk out, but she could not due to an off-campus class. The of the walkout and march, Dr. Kubal took a class vote to see who would like to participate in the walk out, and most, if not all of us, raised our hands to participate. Since it was a last minute decision, there was no way to get a large organized group of people to come together. That would have been the best thing to happen for that day.
In the beginning of the walkout, our class stood in a circle in the pavilion outside of the social science building and we began to shout out the chants that were designed for that day. Our voices were so loud, they echoed throughout the pavillion. As students were walking by, a couple of them began to stop and listen to our chants, after a couple of minutes, they began to join us as well. After that, we decided to take a short walk around the campus to see if we could get anyone else to come and join us. As we began to march, people mostly stopped to listen or just watched us walk by. As we walked we kept our chants going and I led them a few times, I stopped because I was starting to mess up the chants. As far as spur of the moment decisions go, I believe our that our class walk out was successful: we were able to get a few students to join us, our class's chants were strong, and we all had a good time. The only thing that would have been better is if we were able to get a larger group of people participating in the walkout with us.
Joey Mendez Soc 122
Joey Mendez
May 17, 2018
Soc 122
Discussion Paper
In a White House meeting on Wednesday, President Trump lashed out at undocumented immigrants saying that dangerous people were demanding to breach the countries border. He went on to say these such people are animals. This was all in front of News Cameras. These comments came during a discussion with state and local leaders on California's sanctuary laws. Sanctuary laws limit the communication from local law enforcement and immigration officers. This is not the first time President Trump has lashed out and said things like thing about immigrants. Trump is frustrated that he has not done more to seal the borders. In the meeting Trump also talked about the immigration laws and how he thought they were the dumbest laws on immigration. He feels that his administration would do way better at keeping these unwanted people out of our country including members of gangs like the MS-13. He wants all control of this so he can put into place the things he feels with eliminate this situation from ever happening. He talked about how many people they are being stopped trying to cross the border and how bad these people are that are trying to cross the border. According to Trump everyone trying to cross the border is an animals and how we are taking them out of our country at a level that has never happened before. Local Officials said that Trump's immigration policies and lamenting California's laws are making it way more difficult to find criminals and even deport them. Trump has been trying to put a stop to this since he started his term as the President of the United States. This all plays into Trump's wall idea that would eliminate these animals from crossing the border. I personally agree with what he is trying to do by building a wall to stop these people from crossing the border. But I personally would not call them animals for trying to cross.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/16/us/politics/trump-undocumented-immigrants-animals.html
Joey Mendez Soc 122
Joey Mendez
Soc 122
May 17 2018
Discussion Paper
In this Article the Trump administration is considering holding immigrant children on military bases after being caught trying to cross the U.S.-Mexico border with their family. They are planning to separate these children from their families if they are caught trying to cross the border without authorization. The bases they are potentially going to hold these children are in Texas and Arkansas. This is not the first time we have to do something like this before. Defense Department facilities have been used in this manner before even before Trump became the president. During the Obama presidency we had to do something in the manner. The Administration for Children and Families at HSS said that there needs to be care for the minors who are without their families and that their need to be routine evaluating. They also talk about how their need to be an existing of approximately 100 shelters and that they need to be evaluated by federal agencies. Kristjen Nielsen defended an agency policy that will result in more families being separated. He testified at a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs COmmittee hearing where people on both sides of the aisle were concerned about what would happened to these children who end up in custody. She talks about how their policy is that if you break the law, then you will be punished. People have the decision to go to a port of entry and cross not illegally into the country. It is their choice on what they decide to do but if they are caught trying to cross without permission and illegally then they will be punished for their actions. These people are putting their family in danger because of their own decisions. Yeah of course the want to experience life on the other side of the border and get the same opportunity as everyone else, but ultimately they are putting their families lives in danger.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/15/politics/children-military-bases/index.html
Joey Mendez Soc 122
Joey Mendez
May 17, 2018
Soc 122
Discussion Paper
On Earth 2018, people are ending plastic pollution in Oceans, Lands, and Our Bodies. The documents goes on to talk about how there is nearly 300 million tons of plastic sold each year and about 90 percent of it ends up in our oceans, land, and even inside our bodies. Dr. Marcus Eriksen is the leading expert on microplastics, and he explains these microplastics are broken down fragments of larger plastics. He talked about how animals are consuming these plastics and how plastic bottles and other trash is being found floating all over the ocean and even frozen in sea ice. Amy Goodman asked him what impact it has on humans and he went on to talk about how one sixth of the planet gets their protein from fish which means not only are people getting protein, but they are also consuming these plastics and toxins that the fish are consuming. Eriksen created a junk raft out of the same trash people consume everyday to get the world's attention. He used 15,000 plastic bottles, old fishing nets, 20 sailboat masts, and an airplane wing to make the deck. He talked about how how all of the North Pacific is cover in plastic and waste. Eriksen and his colleague Frederick vom Saal wants to eliminate the BPA in our cans and bottles. His studies have brought attention to many people and is now growing across the world. The movement is call "The Break Free from Plastics movement". He now has over 1,060 organizations supporting him and trying to eliminate certain plastics. After reading this article I was in shock how much plastic is sold each year. That is a huge number and to find that 90 percent of it is ending up in the ocean is horrible. Everyone need to make a change so this problem does not happen because it is ruining the beautiful planet we all live on.
https://www.democracynow.org/2018/4/20/earth_day_2018_ending_plastic_pollution
Joey Mendez Soc 122
Joey Mendez
May 14th 2018
Social Movements
Social Media Tactic
Setting up a social media on our cause was actually really cool. We set our social media up through twitter because the platform of that app was easiest for us to post and say what we wanted. Each person in the group switched off from day to day to post something they felt was needed to heard and that was current event involving our group on race. We would even retweet popular pages that posted stuff on racism. Although we didn't get the most attention, I feel that if we continue tweeting and getting the word out there, that all the time we put in by posting will eventually pay off. If there was one thing I would improve with our social media page, it's that I would go and follow thousands of people hoping to get followers that would repost the things we had to say on our movement which would get more and more supporters of our group race. I felt that we did not execute that part properly because we only followed about 100 people at the start of creating it. It was kinda disappointing when only a couple people in our group were involved in the social media because the other people did not feel the need to communicate with the rest of us. We are supposed to be a team and the people who didn't feel the need to communicate weren't apart of the team. At that moment they were doing things for themselves instead of for the group. Overall, I think the event went very well. Of course, you are not going to get the attention you wish you had overnight. Nothing comes that easy, it all takes time which with time I feel our group could get a lot of attention in the future. With a lot of support and understanding, our group can alter many peoples opinions on the situation of race and segregation. In the future I would love to start up more social media accounts across other platforms without cause to expand our movement.
Joey Mendez Soc 122
Joey Mendez
May 14th 2018
Social Movements
Movie Tactic
I really enjoyed setting up an event to play a movie on our social movement. The movie we played was called "13th". It showed how blacks were being treated unconstitutionally. It also talked about how there is now more Blacks in prison being "watched" over then there were ever enslaved. Minorities were being imprisoned at much larger rates than ever before. The movie talked about how they got their 13th amendment taken away from them and that isn't right at all. I thought showing this movie was perfect for our group because it showed everything we were trying to express. We didn't have the outcome we expected to have because only a couple person showed up to watch the movie. If I was to do this event again in the future I would make tons of flyers and post them all around campus so tons of people see it hoping that they would show up and spread the word to others. I would have also held it at a later time of day because I feel that more people would have been able to show up. We lacked planning just a little bit because we didn't really prepare for the event that well. We posted flyers but not enough I feel. But I do believe the event went very well, but it could have went a lot better with better planning and communication. The best thing about holding the movie was the conversation everyone had after it. It opened a conversation between everyone and allowed people to express how they feel about race and its relation to the justice system. This was an important moment because it showed that our group impacted and moved people. We made them feel comfortable enough to express their feelings and ever share their own personal experiences. I would love to be involved with something like this in the future. I really how the event made everyone felt comfortable enough to express the feelings the had and tell everyone how they felt.
Joey Mendez Soc 122
Joey Mendez
May 14th 2018
Social Movements
Interview Summary
The push polling was probably my least favorite tactic out of all of them. Our group conducted interviews on questions that were created by each member of the group. There was a total of 15 questions that were all about race. We did not conduct the interviews as a group which was a bummer to me because it would have been cool to hear all of the answers each individual got. I personally interviewed all of the Fresno State baseball team and my family and friends. I was not surprised to see that each person's answer was pretty much the same as the others. The thing that stood out the most to me was that everyone assumed that African Americans were the most deaths by police when it was really white Americans. One thing everyone who answered the questions agreed on was that racism is a threat to our country. They did feel that their was a solution for this social problem but did not know the exact solution to fix this massive problem. One way I feel our group could have done better is work together. Yeah we made the questions together but we did not work with each other when asking people these questions. I feel this even would have been way more enjoyable if I was able to hear the answers others got from the people they interviewed. I also feel that we could have picked out one specific problem with our movement and wrote all our questions about that one topic. I do feel that our push poll questions and interviews altered peoples opinions about our issue. I feel that it opened their eyes to see what's really going on and not just reading our hearing about it on the news. The people I interviewed are now more aware that racism is a huge thing in our country.
Joey Mendez Soc 122
Joey Mendez
May 14th 2018
Social Movements
March Forth Protest Tactic
The protest march was probably one of the most moving things I have ever done. I have never been apart of a march for social movements and politics, so I never thought I would do a social movement march holding signs with a bunch a people. For this event all the groups made signs on their causes and what they were marching for. The groups I was involved with was the race group. My signs personally said, "Segregation ends here" and "All races are equal" . I love how all the groups came together as one and all supported each other groups and views on the movements they were supporting. It was almost like we were all a team with the same overall goal which was to bring attention to everyone's group and not just our own. Overall, I thought the event went really well, but if I would change one thing about it, I would do it at a different time of day when more people are outside able to see. I would also make sure each and every group has multiple chants to say because it brings a lot of attention when you hear something like that. I felt that there was less attention towards all the groups when everyone was quiet and just walking. It was pretty cool when we were walking down the street and cars were honking at us supporting what were doing. People were even taking videos of us. Even if the video was making fun of us it was still getting posted on some sort of social media which means more people will see and possibly be interested in supporting. I thought this even not only brought great solidarity among our groups but also brought all the other groups together as one massive group trying to bring notice to each and every one of their causes. Before this March, I would have never been involved with something like this because I honestly did not care about social movements or problems in the world because they were not affecting me. But after the March I had the best feeling in the world knowing that I was helping other instead of myself for once. Now I want to participate in more Marches in the future just to get the same feeling I got when participation in the March Forth Protest.
Joey Mendez Soc 122
Joey Mendez
Discussion Paper
Facebook is being blamed for playing "Instrumental" role of Burma's ethnic cleansing campaign of Rohingya. Seven soldiers have been sentenced to ten years in prison for the massacre of Rohingya Muslims in the village of Inn Din in western Rakhine State. 10 bodies were found in a mass grave last September. People have been asking Facebook for your years to regulate hate speech on their app against the Rohingya because it has caused a rise in violence against the community. A senator question Mark Zuckerberg the founder of facebook yesterday at a hearing. The senator went on to say you blamed facebook for playing a role in this genocide. Zuckerberg went on to say that they are working on the problem to get hate speech taken down from the website. Zuckerberg said there are three specific things facebook is working on. One being that they are hiring dozens of people to review the content. Second is that they are working with civil societies to identify specific hate figures so that they could take down their accounts rather than specific pieces of content. Third is that facebook is standing up a product team to do specific product changes in other countries that may have some issues in the future to prevent this from happening. Zeynep Tufekci felt that the situation facebook allowed was inexcusable because since 2013 society groups have been begging facebook to step up. Why after so long is facebook just now starting to fix things? Is it because they are now in front of a senator or is it because they are now seeing what harm their app is causing to these places. She explained that when that when facebook and other apps came over to their place, that there was no oversight. Myanmar started using facebook to post all these false accusations where tons of people would see. These post would go viral. People have been bugging Zuckerberg for years to stop this from being allowed. A country that is going through an ethnic cleansing should have been stopped from posting such things many years ago when people first started complaining about it. Tufekci went on to say this is a perfect example of what facebook's lack of external drive for proper oversight and what our societies lack of attention to intervene. If this would have happened earlier less people have died and less problems would be going on in these places. It's crazy to me to hear that it took that long to actually make a change to their app. If this problem was going on in the U.S or any other big country, this problem would have been fixed immediately. It should not have taken that long.
https://www.democracynow.org/2018/4/11/how_facebook_played_instrumental_role_in
Isabel Espinoza 110335465Classmates movie viewing-Extra Credit
Hello Dr. Kubal,
I did a movie analysis for the Hungry and Homeless movie I attended on a Sunday. I did not see a link so I send it to both emails. I hope you don't mind.Please see my reflection on it.
Thank you,
Isabel Espinoza
110335465
Wednesday, May 16, 2018
Joey Mendez Soc 122
Joey Mendez
70th Anniversary of Nakba Killings
The Israeli Military has killed Sixty-one people are dead and another 2,700 are wounded at a protest for the opening of the U. S. Embassy in Jerusalem. It has been the deadliest days for Palestinians since they launched the nonviolent Great March of Return on March 30. This is all going down when the United State of America is illegally opening an embassy. The story also talked about how tragic it is that America is celebrating the opening of an embassy while Israel is killing and even injuring thousands of civilians. Palestinians have launched a general strike to mark 70 years since the Nakba where hundreds of thousands of palestinians were forcibly expelled from their homes after the state of Israel was formed. White house deputy press secretary Raj Shaw was asked if Israel should shoulder some of the blame? He went on to say that they believe the Hamas are responsible for this and that it is a propaganda attempt. They then went on the interview Sharif Abdel Kouddous who is at the scene of the killings and woundings of tons of people. He described it a scene of chaos in many ways with burning tires, tear gas, young men throwing rocks, and these kites flying over. He also went on the explain how the sniper bullets were not coming in a barrage of fire. He said it was methodical and precise. He explained the shootings as "you hear a shot and somebody goes down, you carry his bloody body away, wait a few minutes and you hear another shot and another body falls". He talked about how the hospital was a huge scene of chaos. The floors were all bloody with people all over the place sitting in pain from shot wounds and tear gas. It's crazy to hear the Israeli army was shooting these people from the other side of the border. Israeli soldiers were saying the palestinians were posing a threat when the other thing they has was rocks. None of the Israeli soldiers were even injured so how do they feel a threat? The democracy now people asked him to explain what the 70th Anniversary of Nakba means. He went on the explain how it means catastrophe. It marked the moment when 720 or 750 thousand Palestinians were forcibly displaced from their homes to gaza and to other countries. For 70 years they have asked for the right to return to their home land, but have been denied that right for the past 70 years. It's crazy to me that these people are forced to live in refugee camps. They call these marches the great march of return. They are trying to give themselves the right to return by cutting the wires to cross the border but are either shot or forced to return to gaza. It crazy to me that these people were shot for doing something that didn't put any of the Israeli army in danger. Yeah they had rocks and flew kites that had fire on them, but they also have guns but none of those were brought out and shot at the Israelis. They were just peacefully protesting and should not have been shot at for it.
https://www.democracynow.org/2018/5/15/palestinians_mark_70th_anniversary_of_nakba
Joey Mendez Soc 122
Joey Mendez
May 14th 2018
Social Movements
Chalking Tactic
Chalking about your social movement is really cool. Maybe you are the most social person but feel like you want to speak out about a social problem. Chalking allows you to write it on the ground that thousands of people walk over and read. Not all of my group wanted to meet up and do the chalking together. But I did have two people meet up, and their names are Luke and Eric. We really enjoyed chalking about our social movement. We even sat around after we finished writing out sayings to see how many people read what we said. There was a lot of attention toward our topic. It's a cool feeling when you see people reading what you had to say because that shows your cause is getting attention. If I was to do the same thing again the only thing I would do to improve it is have the whole group do it together as one. With a bunch of sayings that all went to the same movement would be great because there is more for people to read and possibly understand. Another way I would improve this is by changing the location we did the chalking. Possibly change it to a location that tons a people walk over everyday. Luke and I planned it really well, we planned to do it right in front of library because the whole school pretty much walked passed it everyday. I thought the event went very well and got a lot of attention from a lot of people. I also think people opinions either got stronger or even changed after reading our chalking. I heard people talking about how they strongly agreed with what we wrote and supported what we were saying.
Discussion Paper #5
Maritza Guerrero
SOC 122 M/W 10:00 am
15 May 2018
Discussion Paper #5
https://www.democracynow.org/2018/5/2/with_labor_immigrant_rights_under_attack
https://www.democracynow.org/2018/5/2/arizona_joins_red_state_revolt_teachers
From the first story from May 2 of this year, New Yorkers along with various other countries are protesting for May Day. The focus of this protests is on labor rights for workers, especially the rights of immigrant workers. In New York, people from the protest speak out about the reasons for the protests such as Mohamad Attia, who is a co-director for the Street Vendor Project. Attia states how majority of immigrants are vendor workers, and that many face many injustices from the "system." Another individual that was present at the protest and shared her thoughts was Marta Velez. Velez shares on the rich and in the defense thoughts that are low income, but work hard.
The second story that was also from the same date of the first story I summarized, May 2, is on a teacher's strike in Phoenix, Arizona. Teachers have been on strike for a fifth day and will not go back to teaching until they see a change in wages and other changes they want established as teachers. Mary Kotnour, a teacher in Arizona, explains how funding is the major issue and that the funding is not just for the benefit of the teachers, but better funding would benefit and help other areas that need such as for schools, students, and more. Another teacher in Arizona and organizer for the "RedforEd" movement, Noah Karvelis, also speaks on the protests and issue. Karveliz mentions how the issue can be resolved now, but if it wasn't for the protests that a 20% raise would be even be considered and would had stayed at 2%. Therefore, the protests have had a impact on legislators moving on the issue. Karveliz also mentions that the protests that started in West Virginia helped inspire the protests in Arizona. In conclusion, teachers in Arizona will hear if they will get their 20% raise as proposed on that day of what was the fifth day that teachers were on strike.
Discussion Paper #4
Maritza Guerrero
SOC 122 M/W 10:00 am
14 May 2018
Discussion Paper #4
https://www.democracynow.org/2018/3/15/enough_a_million_students_walk_out
https://www.democracynow.org/2018/3/15/farmworkers_bring_human_rights_fight_to
The first story was on the students movement from different schools around the country that took a stand in protest for gun control. Students are doing "walk-outs" as a form of protest for gun control, and what are causing these protests from students was the recent event that happened in February of this year. The school shooting in Florida is the reason for these protests, and from past mass shootings in the country. The story takes us to a school in New York that shows students chanting and speaking out against gun violence and wanting a ending to it. Shown in the story was also two middle school students that participated in a walk-out in Colorado that talk about their walk-out at their school which they helped organize. The story continues with the focus of New York students on their protesting and showing many young advocates and students speaking on the issue. One being a 17-year old girl, president of the black lives matter coalition in New York sharing her story to why she is at the protest.
The second story has the same date as the first one of March 15, 2018. This story deals with farm workers from Florida protesting against Wendy's outside of a building in New York. These farm workers have fasted, and will end their fast at a protest. The reasoning for the protest was based on Wendy's refusal in signing for a program known as the Fair Food Program. Wendy's is one of the only ones that did not sign it in contrast to other major fast food chains that did sign which include McDonald's, Chipotle, and more. The reason why these farmers want Wendy's to sign on to this program is so that Wendy's will buy produce, in this case, tomatoes, from workers that would be protected from injustices such as physical abuses and sexual harassment according to Democracy Now spreaker Nermeen Shaikh. The story also features a farm worker, Gerardo Reyes Chavez, who speaks on the issue.Discussion Paper #3
Maritza Guerrero
SOC 122 M/W 10:00 am
14 May 2018
Discussion Paper #3
https://www.democracynow.org/2018/3/5/people_have_just_had_enough_west
https://www.democracynow.org/2018/3/8/in_spain_women_launch_nationwide_feminist
From the first story, teachers in West Virginia go on a strike for reasons on better healthcare and the stop of low wages. The story shows a massive crowd of people protesting in the capital of West Virginia. Jay O'Neal, a teacher and Union Activist in West Virginia, goes into why teachers are going on strike explaining how the state has not been "funding" the insurance provided and is causing teachers cuts in pay along with other reasons for poor insurance. This is one of the main reasons for people in West Virginia coming together for the strike. Furthermore, Mike Elk, reporting on the strike, brought up a similar strike among coal miners that happened in past. Elk then goes in on the politics of the problem with a bill trying to be passed for a 5% raise for teachers. Elk also goes into how this strike is influencing other states to go on strike.One state mentioned is Oklahoma.
From the second story, countries from around the world celebrated International Women's Day in various ways to bring awareness to struggles that women are facing in the modern world. In Spain, women went on a work strike. A crowd of what seem almost all women, including mayors from two big cities in Spain, were chanting and banging spoons against pans. In South Korea, people were celebrating by bringing awareness to the "MeToo" movement. In England, women celebrated the anniversary for when women were granted the right to vote. These were only three major examples from the other counties that the story mentioned. The focus was put back on Spain as a Journalist in Spain explains why women went on a work strike. One of the reasons mentioned by Journalist Maria Carrion was the wage gap in Spain. Another one was to bring attention to the work that women in Spain do, and to show how it would be if women did not carry out there work as Carrion explained in the story.
Discussion Paper #2
Maritza Guerrero
SOC 122 M/W 10:00 am
16 May 2018
Discussion Paper #2
https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/22/politics/armmewith-twitter-teachers-guns/index.html
https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/20/health/metoo-domestic-violence-screening-tool/index.html
The first story is on teachers in response to gun violence due to the recent school shooting in Florida and President Donald Trump's solution to gun violence in schools. Their response created a new movement on social media known as the "hashtag Arm Me With," where teachers posted onto their social media pages solutions to the problem. Donald Trump's comment is what started the movement which was a comment on arming teachers with guns for safety, but this created a backlash from teachers. Teachers such as Olivia Bertels from Kansas and Brittany Wheaton from Utah were responsible for beginning this movement. The teachers that joined the movement had some similar solutions in response to gun violence. Some of their solutions consisted of smaller class sizes and better funding. In conclusion, Wheaton states that the problem with gun violence can only be solved if other issues are being solved with it which was funding for schools.
The second story is on the "hashtag Me Too" movement. The story comments on the success the movement has had due to allowing more people to come out about their stories, but that there still isn't enough attention on domestic violence in a nationwide scale. This is argued in the story due to the case of Rob Porter, a staff in the White House, who was accused of domestic violence. People, such as Lori Day of the Jeanne Geiger Crisis Center, are bringing domestic violence into the forefront of attention it needs with solutions to bring awareness to the issue. The Geiger Crisis Center created a "tool" called "the Danger Assessment for Law Enforcement" that would help those suffering from domestic violence in allowing officers to see how severe the case is. The tool is in action in three cities so far. In conclude, Day and Suzanne Dubus of the Geiger Center share their positive thoughts on other movements that have been surfacing in recent times.
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