Required Texts:
Jane McAlevey. 2012. Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell): My Decade Fighting for the Labor Movement. Verso
Gar Alperovitz. 2010. What Then Must We Do? Straight Talk about the Next American Revolution. Chelsea Green Publishing
9/8:
Outsiders in Ferguson, Wall Street Journal: http://online.wsj.com/articles/in-ferguson-many-outsiders-are-among-those-arrested-1408491536
In Ferguson, young demonstrators are finding it’s not their grandparents’ protest, Wall Street Journal: http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/in-ferguson-young-demonstrators-are-finding-its-not-their-grandparents-protest/2014/08/21/95110be0-28a0-11e4-86ca-6f03cbd15c1a_story.html
Ways to Support Ferguson: http://www.handsupunited.org/support-ferguson
Anonymously Complete Activist Skills Questionnaire: http://www.vernalproject.org/papers/change/ActQuest.pdf
9/14: Bread and Roses Film Screening7pm, Axinn 232
9/15: Jane McAlevey—Introduction, Chapters 1-4, Sen–Stir it Up Introduction, Meeting with community partner, Vermont Workers Center
9/22: Public Story Worksheet07Ganz, Ganz_WhyStoriesMatter_2009, Ganz_LeadingChange_2010
TheStorm_ParablesOfKierkegaard_ed.Oden_1978,
Piven and Cloward–Structuring of Protest
9/28: How to Survive a Plague Film Screening 7pm, Axinn 232
9/29: Meeting with community partner, Rising Tide, VT and Henry Hambon, Shaw_Ch7_TheActivist’sHandbook_2013, Schutt–Effecetive Nonviolent Action, Fisher, TheActivismIndustry
10/6: Event with Marina Sitrin
Jo Freeman, “The Tyranny of Structurelessness,” Berkeley Journal of Sociology, 1970, (pp.1-8). (P) http://www.anarres.org.au/essays/amtos.htm
Marina Sitrin, Sitrin & Azzellini-title page intro and chpts 2, 3 & 5
10/13: No Class, Fall Recess
10/20: Jane McALevey Chapters 5- epilogue, Discuss Power Structure Analysis, AHUY and AAR
10/27: At the River I Stand film screening in class
Carmichael–Black Power, rustin bayard_blackseparatismfailure1970,
Ta-Nehisi Coates. “The Case for Reparations.” The Atlantic:
http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2014/05/the-case-for-reparations/361631/
Kevin D Williamson. The Case Against Reparations:
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/378737/case-against-reparations-kevin-d-williamson
11/2: Harlan County, USA film screening, 7pm, Axinn 232
11/3: Power Structure Analysis Due
Malcolm Gladwell, “Small Change: Why the revolution will not be tweeted”, in The
New Yorker, October 4, 2010. http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/10/04/101004fa_fact_gladwell
Ben Brandzell, “What Malcolm Gladwell Missed About Online Organizing and Creating Big Change”, in The Nation, November 15, 2010. http://www.thenation.com/article/156447/what-malcolm-gladwell-missed-about-online-organizing-and-creating-big-change
McCallum_Introduction_Global_Unions_Local_Power
An Audacious Proposal, Think Progress: http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2014/06/17/3447851/plan-to-save-labor/
11/9: If a Tree Falls film screening, 7pm, Axinn 232
11/10: Gar Alperovitz. 2010. What Then Must We Do? Straight Talk about the Next American
11/17: Group meetings about presentations—sign up for time slots!
11/24: Group Presentations
12/1: Class Review, Course Evaluations
Is Irony Killing Activism–http://www.salon.com/2014/11/23/from_stuff_white_people_like_to_notyourshield_how_irony_is_killing_activism/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=socialflow
Crass-Towards Collective Liberation title page & pgs 171-178