Brenda Ramirez

Soc 122 MW 530-645

Group event 

Movie 4/5

                For our fourth event, we planned a movie night to play "Rape for profit". We had a decision between to videos, but we thought for this movie touched more bae on women being sold on the streets to make a living for someone other than themselves. As to promoting the video, my group and I spread the word by mouth, using our social media page "Free all Bodies" on Facebook, and my fellow group member was kind enough to make flyers and post them around campus where we thought they would be read. We persuaded people to come, and offered free pizza. We did get an audience and they stayed for the whole movie and had a lot of opinions after and examples based on their personal lives. We discussed our thoughts about the move and what we can do to spread the word further about human trafficking and making it known not just a subject that people say "oh yeah I know about it, how sad" we wanted to make an impact based on what we have learned about the facts and impacts women go through whether it's for sex or labor, to think even families from other countries sale their daughters just to receive dirty money. We may not know all the details and I know there is more to it but I feel our group did an awesome job just pulling out information from the surface and gave this issue a little life.

F.A.B Movie "Rape for Profit"

Karla Gomez

Soc 122

M/W 5:30-6:45

In order to try and spread the word about our movie showing. We created flyers that said," Human trafficking movie showing " Rape for profit". We used different statistics for the movie. I helped alice hang some flyers in various places most the social sciences building. We also created an event on facebook and shared it with some of my friends.  We shared the page with each of our friends page.I also texted my friends to come and see the showing. Once we arrived at room 122. Dr. Kubal had the pizza and all the resources ready, we also had the movie ready to show and it was great, we had 9 people show up and the movie was inspiring and had great statistics. After, the movie we had a discussion about what we think about the movie and what we can do to help end the spread. Or what to do to help end the trafficking. I was glad that the movie was shown great movie. After the movie was over we had a discussion and everyone seemed as though they had learned alot,  I would want to do more planning for it further in advance and try to make sure there weren't any other conflicting events .I would also want to advertise the event more with better flyers for black and white printing and would've called it a movie instead of a documentary, especially since it wasn't presented in a traditional documentary format.     

Black Lives matter

Karla Gomez

SOC 122

M/W 5-6:45

In the movie, "Black Lives Matter" many highlights of framing were depicted. One example that depicted framing was the recorded videos of the cops who used excessive force and killed innocent African Americans. The recordings were used to negatively portray the cops as killers adding on to the movement Black Lives Matter. Political opportunity was also present especially with the murder case of Trayvon Martin in 2012 that created the Black Lives Matter movement. The unjust ruling of the court system that ruled not guilty to the policemen that killed Trayvon gave the African American community a political opportunity to create the Black Lives Matter movement. An example of resource mobilization can be seen when The Black Lives Matter evolved into a national issue with the help of social media. The spread of its message influenced the rise of thousands of people to take a stand with the movement and spread its message.

SNARL Movie Event – Unity

Lana Silva

7 May 2016

SOC 122

SNARL Movie – Unity

 

In order to try and spread the word about our movie showing, I created flyers that said, "Pre-game for Earth Day!" with different movie covers from Unity's website and wrote the words "An exclusive screening of the new documentary UNITY" underneath. I hung some of these flyers in various places around campus, such as any open boards I saw, and in the McLane Hall, Family Food & Science, and Speech Arts buildings. I also created an event on Facebook and shared it with some of my friends. Unfortunately, upon arrival we found out that there was no room 122 and had to relocate to a room upstairs. The people who attended the event included Dr. Kubal, the members of SNARL, my boyfriend George, and another student who left during the film. I was glad that the movie shown was switched from Earthlings because this one was still hard to watch at times, but not nearly as hard to watch as Earthlings would have been. After the movie was over we had a discussion and everyone seemed as though they had learned a lot and didn't want to be eating meat anytime soon. I was further convinced about my choice to be vegan and enjoyed learning about the issues from more of a philosophical and spiritual point of view. If we were to have this sort of event again in the future, I would want to do more planning for it further in advance and try to make sure there weren't any other conflicting events going on at the same time. The day that we had this showing was the same night that the Cross Cultural and Gender Center hosted a Yoga session in the South Gym. If I were not apart of this group and I wanted to go to both events, I probably would've chosen to go the Yoga event instead because I could watch the movie later on my own. I would also want to advertise the event more with better flyers for black and white printing and would've called it a movie instead of a documentary, especially since it wasn't presented in a traditional documentary format.     

Event 4: Movie

Uranan Kou Yang

SOC 122 5:30pm-6:45pm

Event 4: Movie

            For this event my team and I chose to show a movie called, "He Named Me Malala." The movie is about a 17 year old girl named Malala Yousafzai who was shot by the Taliban advocating for girls right to education in Pakistan. I did give out a notice to other people to come and watch, but sadly they couldn't make it. Although I only stayed for an hour of the movie I really enjoyed the courage that this young woman displayed. I can see that she is still a young woman that still enjoys having fun with her brothers and everyday activity that a 17 year old teenager would be doing. There was a part of the movie that really caught my attention, and that one part was when Nigerian citizens called Malala to help with acquiring the kidnapped daughters of the citizens of Nigeria. As they cried and pleaded Malala for help she said that she wasn't sure what she was able to do, because she was just one person. Even though she did feel that way she still spoke to the leader of Nigeria and voiced her opinion, which I felt was more than enough help. I feel that her motivational speech on education for every child in the world is very powerful, because it reveals that the voice is a powerful weapon. I'm happy to see that Malala's father influenced her to become the way she is now as a person. There was not that many people at the movie event, but for the people that showed up I hope that this movie is an inspiration to advocating for equality and change. I wished I could've stayed longer to watch the entire movie, but just that first hour really helped me see the determination and ability of one person can have.

Source: http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/he-named-me-malala-2015

black live's mattter

Black Lives Matter

Karen Flores

Framing: they created some kind of rap song as there type of language to communicate. Black life matters was an actual change. The injustice police system and necessary to change. Political opportunity:  Many videos and pictures are taken of drastic brutality against African Americans and nothing is being done against it. Tryran Martin 2012 changed many thing for years it amplified how cops abused and took advantage of their power. The #blacklivematter is made spread in the world. This is what helped the most because media made a great impact to society and how cops overpower simply because they are police. Media has helped the public realize what is going around them, even though sometimes nothing is done to stop or to prevent it from occurring again. Resources movolization: taking pictures with shirts saying cop watching. Violent cops are computer by camera got to the Time Magazine. Black life matters say there is no justice "it is just use black together."

Film Analysis

Alice Lopez

Dr. Kubal

SOC 122

2 May 2016

Black Lives Matter

          In class we watched a film about the history of the movement for Black Lives Matter. The film explained how the movement evolved from a state & country issue, to a global issue. Our job was to analyze how they used the following tactics to advance their cause: resource mobilization, framing, and political opportunity.

          The best tactic, in my opinion, that helped advance the movement was the use of their resources. In an era full of technology, they used it to let their cause be known to everyone. The movement itself was derived through the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter. This hashtag spread through all social media and helped bring on board people who were not part of the movement but believed in it. In other words, it mobilized citizens to take a stance and bring more light to the issue. Since more people were becoming aware of how they could shed light on the injustices, more videos sparked on social media that showed how police officers were arresting black people viciously. The use of self-media helps advance the cause because there is no need to depend on state or global news stations that all have political agendas when it comes to watch is shown or is not. Of course they had more resources like political figures; however, technology was the greatest.

          As for framing and political opportunity, the movement grew from incidents that occurred in the community. It was cases like that of Freddy Gray that helped spark outrage amongst people and get them mobilized to put pressure on the government officials. Furthermore, there were violent riots on the streets because of these unjust beatings, but through these incidents there was more pressure and it resulted in getting 6 officers indicted. Of course this is only a small win, but nonetheless a win for the movement. There is still work to be done, but like in the film we see parents and citizens coming forth to take a stand against violent crimes being committed in the black community.     

 

BLM in class movie

Murat Ince

Soc 122

5/1/16

 

            The overall theme of the movie seemed to be that black people, although citizens, were not really free in the United States. The movie bombards you with all of these statistics that show how black people represent a disproportionate amount of the prison populace nationally… how black people are more likely to get shot… how black people are etc. And to be honest, the movie really does have a point. From a perspective, a white guy in America can live his entire life and become successful without ever having to interact with a black guy. However conversely, a black guy living in America will never be successful without having to interact with a white guy at some critical point in his life. So the question really becomes, who is living in who's' world? Unfortunately for black people they are viewed as black people and not as just people. This is where the problem is rooted and that is the fight of BLM. Everyone should be treated equally just like the constitution says if you're a law abiding citizen and also just like god said if you're a religious person. I mean I really don't understand where the confusion comes from but never the less humans never cease to amaze. In the BLM case they utilize something old school social movements never had a chance to. Now a days, social media is one of if not the most important tool. Social media is used in a variety of ways such as videos, hashtags, and simply spreading "the word" around the world in a quick and efficient way. Social media is a perfect example of resource mobilization and political opportunity.

#BLM notes

Black Lives Matter video_ Social Movement tactics

Name: William Reyes

Course: Social Movement.

The start of the Black Lives Matter Movement was a coalition of feminist activist. The goal of the movement at first was to raise awareness for the LGTB community in hope to reduce discrimination on grounds of gender bias. The community of the Black Lives Matters took on the challenge to expose the endemic discrimination on the African American community. The lack of justice and economic opportunity for many African American was tolerated for much of the greater part the last century. However with the death of Treyvon Martin from Florida, Tymir Rise in Baltimore, and Michael Brown in Ferguson Missouri and many other who die as a result of police used of excessive force. In many of the case in which police were caught on camera did not seem to matter much. The community however did care and took action in challenging the perception that police are allowed to kill on any grounds, police killing black people is acceptable did not seat well with the families nor the community.  The Black lives matter found its support from the exposure to content the public was able witness. Photos that show the brutal way that police used against the African American community and thus many of the pictures taken by photographer help explain the problem of discrimination it did not change much unless there was action that demanded reform. Political opportunity means that people can support political leader who are willing to support their cause. Then the participant can show their support by displaying arts and other form public theater to demonstrate that there is a problem. They often use tactics by mobilization of resources from the media, to social media, newspapers, and television. The movement then can display their grievances in a public forum for people to see that there is a problem.  The goal of the raising awareness brings people together in support of the groups. The goal is to collectively change a the persecution of African and maintain unity on all side of the issues of race in America. The Movement most powerful tool was to show photos of police violence on the community and violence that erupted with police tactics intended to reduce damages. In this way the black lives matter movement can display a greater sense of the problem.

#BLACK LIVES MATTER

Josie Renforth

4/29 movie and leacture

Soc 122

#BLACK LIVES MATTER

 

"#Blacklives matter"   What began as a twitter response to the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the murder of Travon Marin in Florida.   The tweet meant to express dissatisfaction over the court . It quickly gained worldwide support and evolved into a massive social movement.  The Black Lives Matter movement demand is for a " System Change"  Blacks face more unemployment, black neighborhood are more run down, poorer schools, and blacks face more imprisonment  and longer jail/prison terms.

Black Lives Matters frame there message for equality and system reform. They mobilize using social media and have held  tireless protests, especially in communities with victims, like Ferguson,  Baltimore, Oakland, and Chicago.  Hunger strikes, letter writing and in some incidents, rioting has broken out.

Documentary #               BLACK LIVES MATTER    

This documentary reveals the troubling pandemic of law enforcement nationwide, using deadly force against black men.     The film focuses on Baltimore, MD, and Chicago, Il.     Statistically, of  all those in prison nationally 1/3 are black.

In Baltimore:  The acquittal of Zimmerman rocked the black community of Baltimore. Then Baltimore resident, Freddie Gray, was arrested and excessive forece by 6 police officers caused Gray to sustain a broken neck, which lead to his death. Baltimore black neighborhoods are very poor. Some of the brownstone homes that  have been boarded since the riots that broke out in response to Martin Luther Kings murder in 1968.  A Police helicopter circles their neighborhood daily, yet the city fails to provide basic necessary services, such as trash services.  The young black men in the neighborhood ALL see themselves Freddy Gray, a target for the police.   

In 2015, in reaction to the death of Freddy Gray, The community demonstrated, and that led to large scale riot and lotting that paralleled the 1968

Chicago: The other case study for the breakdown in the system the documentary covers is Chicago.  With Factory jobs leaving and not being replaced by any other opportunities, Detriot and other manufacturing, factory, towns have unprecedented levels of unemployment.  Chicago's "South Side" residences live with gun violence so dire, in response to the question, "What would you say to someone thinking of move to the South Side?"  she responds "Don't come here. It's not safe."     Her daughter was murdered, when while in a car with 4 other people, when another driver of a car exchanged words with someone in the front seat, he shot all the people in the car.   Not only does Chicago have the same excessive force with law enforcement, but the black community is suffering for gun violence.    The kids in these neighborhoods are restricted to stay in their homes, when allowed out, they are told to stay on their street. During the taping, a young boy was killed in a drive-by.  He had begged his mom to let him play outside and finally, she agreed.

 

#Black Lives Matter.   When you counter  with "all lives matter, you are not recognizing  the racism against the African American community."

 

The movement frames their cause of "Black Lives Matter."  It's simple and true.  Nationally, over and over again, the evidence, especially cell phone video shows police, in almost all the cases, outnumber the black victim, using excessive and deadly force. As a Nation we should be talking about it and finding a fix.  Most of the deadly shooting are occurring within seconds of the of the police showing up.  The others who have died from injuries related to police beatings , many officers partook in the beatings.   There are people, most of them white, who say the BLM movement is crap, If a 17 year-old George Zimmerman had been killed by a 28 year-old Travon Martin, there would not have been an acquittal.  Do you disagree?  Marissa Alexander, Floridian was defending herself from an abusive husband by firing a warning shot – A WARNING SHOT!!!    She was sentenced to a prison term and did 3 years in prison, before being awarded a lesser sentence and parole.

 

A change needs t come. Until it does, I hope people continue to mobilize, demonstrate, protest, boycott, write letters to politicians, go on hunger strikes, and even riot for change.

Baltimore 1968

Baltimore 2015

Steven Huber's Black Lives Matter Movie Notes

Steven Huber

Soc 122, M-W @5:30

Black Lives Matter Notes

4/30/2016

 

Black Lives Matter Notes

           

            The Black Lives Matter supporters said this is not just a cause, Black Lives Matter's is "The True Life of Blacks". According to this documentary 4 times more blacks get arrested for drugs than whites do. Another stunning statistic is how young black men are 14 times more likely to die than other races. All these statistics tell a sad but true story of how blacks are singled out by the cops especially in Baltimore and Chicago. Gun violence is so bad in Chicago that a mother of a shooting victim states "For people not to come to Chicago because the children can't even go outside" it is too violent. A total of fifty shootings left eight dead in one weekend in Chicago. The ironic thing about Chicago is that in the early 1900's the blacks fled the racism of the south for a peaceful place called Chicago. It was not so ironic that the racism of blacks followed them where ever they went. Now speaking on Baltimore. Baltimore burned in 1968 with Dr. Martin Luther King and nowadays the social movement is rising again. This all started with the death of Trevon Martin in 2012. A total of 6 cops in Baltimore were prosecuted for the death of Martin. Finally a cop named Michael Woods sounded the alarm about cops being crooked in Baltimore. This was a huge eye opener that showed the truth of racism inside of our countries police force.

Black Lives Matter

Uranan Kou Yang

SOC 122 MW 5:30-6:45

4/27/16

Black Lives Matter

            In the movie, "Black Lives Matter" there were many highlights of framing. One example that depicted framing was the recorded videos of the cops who used excessive force and killed innocent African Americans. The recordings were used to negatively portray the cops as killers adding on to the movement Black Lives Matter. Political opportunity was also present especially with the murder case of Trayvon Martin in 2012 that created the Black Lives Matter movement. The unjust ruling of the court system that ruled not guilty to the policemen that killed Trayvon gave the African American community a political opportunity to create the Black Lives Matter movement. An example of resource mobilization can be seen when The Black Lives Matter evolved into a national issue with the help of social media. The spread of its message influenced the rise of thousands of people to take a stand with the movement and spread its message.

 

Black Lives Matter

Movie night food for all

Karen Flores

FOOD FOR ALL MOVIE NIGHT

The food stamp challenged documentary was really interesting. The first time I saw it 3 years ago made a great impact on me this is why I myself did the food stamp challenged to experience what it was like even though growing up my family and I also were food insecure and deepened on food stamps can the food the community bank would give out once a month. We did not have a lot of people show up for the movie but it was not as bad either we had some students or that is what matters. I loved the discussion we had and got to share a lot of the experiences of our own. This documentary this couple shared for the food stamp challenged was very empowering to me because they made me realize that many people face this problems every day. Food insecure is a big problem and I always question myself why American is is one of the riches countries in the entire world. But then I realized that many people are not aware of how it is a big issue that needs to be addressed. Only we the people can really change this in our country if we speak out. The government doesn't do anything about it because we the people do not do anything about it, we have control over it because it is our money and it is coming out of our check. This documentary shows how living on food stamps is mostly impossible to live on and if they do it is because they are eating unhealthy meals. This documentary shows how important it can be to grow our own vegetables and fruits can be healthier and also cheaper for healthy meals. Dumpster digging is also another thing many people do to have a deal a day like they showed on the documentary. Food Banks is one of the most important because I think they do a lot of good things by distributing food to families that need it. Food banks can be another good resources to use or even food pantries and hot meal sites. I honestly think there are many programs that can help a family out and not be food insecure, but many families do not have the transportation to go to programs like this or they are simply not aware that this programs even exist. Not all the food that Food Bank provides are healthy choices, but at the end of the day I do think it is better to have at least a meal of some kind in your stomach than not having anything at all. 

Black Lives Matter film...Randi Kearn

Hate crimes consciousness...groups, crime victims movement

The Birth and Maturation of Hate Crime Policy in the United States Article

Ryken Grattet & Valerie Jenness

Race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexuality, etc...

Notes: Black Lives Matter

Racism and injustice...mass movement...no charsimatic leader, just citizen, social media and the movement.

In Baltimore they've lost 100,00jobs have been lost sense the 50s and a third are in jail

survivalists and fighters

Devin Allen Photographer...see glimpses of his own life, grew up in Baltimore, lost 20 friends to shootings and violence

Freddy Grey died the 19^th of April of spinal injuries, 2015

Neglect of Baltimore's neighborhoods, boarded up, thousands living in scwaler

1968 Baltimore burned, now a new generation is raising

Trey Vonne Martin 12 yrs old in Fla has terrified the country

The cops don't get persecuted

Unarmed man was killed...unarmed blacks are twice as likely to be shot by police than whites

Marylen Moslee demanded the police to be indicted on behalf of Freddy Grey

Tyrone West was driving with a friend. He wasn't drinking or drugging. There was no reason to pull him over. They said he was acting suspiciously, drug him out of the car by his hair across the street, he screamed Help Help Someone Help me,

He was tazered pepper sprayed and beaten and he stopped breathing and died.

Michael Woods was in the police dept in Baltimore who explains the incredible racism in the governmental and local system. He said it was corrupt, making it worse, refusing to change.

Senator Cory Walker is trying to get legislation to change and keep low lever offenders out and get them help and education.

Collateral consequences

Chicago:

There is south side/Black residences and north side/whites

These are all our kids regardless of race, ethnicity, or any other thing, they are ours. What are we teaching them?

Timuel Black is 96 and civil rights activist. There's no sense of hope anymore.