Make sure that when you sign in for attendance, your signature is legible (this is your responsibility). If you have any doubts about the readability of your signature -- print it out.
Essential Research Resources:
Democracy Now
Debatepedia
Factcheck
Free the Files
Global Issues
Global Voices
Merriam Webster Word of the Day
Politifact
Propaganda and Persuasion
Snopes
Sourcewatch
Wisconsin "Budget Repair Bill" Protest from Matt Wisniewski on Vimeo.
Course Homework:
1) Assigned August 15/16: Ryan, Michael. "Theory for Beginners." An Introduction to Criticism: Literature/Film/Culture Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012: 161-180. [Physical copy handed out the first day of class]
2)Assigned August 20/21: Rushkoff, Douglas. "They Say." Coercion: Why We Listen to What "They" Say. NY: Riverhead, 1999: 1-26.
3) Assigned August 22/23 [Read the Wikipedia article and watch the two videos -- write a response synthesizing all three texts]: Wikpedia: Age of Enlightenment/Taylor, Matthew. 21st Century Enlightenment/Robinson, Ken. Changing Education Paradigms
4) Assigned August 27/28: Political Compass Test/Benton, Michael. "My Understanding of Anarchism 3.0" Dialogic (May 13, 2012)/"Political Philosophy." Wikipedia (No Date)
5) Assigned August 29/30: Framing/Propaganda: Peace and Conflict Studies Archive
6) Assigned September 5/6: Glenn Greenwald (Journalist/Constitutional & Civil Rights Lawyer)/Monsanto (Multinational Agricultural Biotechnology Corporation)
7) Assigned September 10/11: Create a bibliography of five academic sources (two must be books) in proper MLA or APA format. These sources will be on the topic of your book for the first major essay. Post on your weblogs as Response #7.
8) Assigned October 17/18: Respond to what you have learned about Howard Zinn in class -- here is an archive on Howard Zinn if you need extra resources or if you want to learn more about him and/or what he is writing about in his histories
Richard Watson: Future Minds/"Michael Wesch: A Portal to Media Literacy/Michael Benton: Thinking About 21st Century Multiliteracies."/Eli Pariser: Beware Online Filter Bubbles/Adam Curtis: All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace
Appiah, Kwame Anthony. "How To Make a Moral Revolution Happen." Open Source (November 12, 2010)
Battaglia, Jeremie. "Casseroles (Quebec Student Street Protests) Vimeo (May 24, 2012) [Also referred to as the "Maple Spring"]
Freedom Riders (PBS Video: 2012)
Benton, Michael. "Astroturf and Front Group Research: The Center for Union Facts." Dialogic (February 23, 2012)
Campbell, Howard. "On the Drug War Zone." History for the Future (February 15, 2011)
Anderson, C.W. "Print Culture 101: A Cheat Sheet and Syllabus." The Atlantic (August 18, 2010) [example of someone preparing a course on a subject -- how do people organize knowledge and make choices of what texts are important to pay attention to when attempting to teach/explain a topic/subject]
Wilkerson, Isabel. "The Leaderless March that Remade America." Open Source (October 12, 2010)
Einstein, Albert. "Why Socialism?" Monthly Review (May 1, 2009)
McChesney, Robert W. and John Nichols. "The Bull Market: Political Advertising." Monthly Review (April 1, 2012)
Aronowitz, Nona Willis. "Half of Americans Getting Government Aid Swear They've Never Used It." Good (July 9, 2011)
Project Censored: Top 25 of 2012
Alperovitz, Gal. ""Worker-Owners of America, Unite": Will Cooperative Workplaces Democratize U.S. Economy?" Democracy Now (December 15, 2011)
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Political Compass Test
Inside Job (documentary)/Richard D. Wolff: Austerity Programs/Public Campaign: Artful Dodgers/Michael Schwalbe: A Primer on Class Struggle/Ronald V. Dellums: Legislating for the People/Dale Maharidge: Someplace Like America/Matt Taibbi: The Real Housewives of Wall Street/Chris Hedges: The Death of the Liberal Class/Bill Moyers Journal: Capitol Crimes/Rachel Maddow and Ed Schultz: Benton Harbor's Emergency Financial Manager/Dave Johnson: Actually, "the Rich" Don't "Create Jobs," We Do/Morgenson/Rosner: “Reckless Endangerment: How Outsized Ambition, Greed, and Corruption Led to Economic Armageddon”
John Bellamy Foster: Education and the Structural Crisis of Capital/Chris Hedges: Why The United States is Destroying Its Education System/Rachel Maddow: Why a Michigan High School is Ground Zero for US Politics/Jeff Biggers: Chained Ethnic Studies Students Take Over School Board in Tucson/Christian L. Pyle: Adjuncts - The Invisible Majority/The High Cost of Low Teacher Salaries/George Carlin: Go Back to Bed America/Mark Memmott: Many Children Still Don't Know Much About History
John Pilger: The War You Don't See
Yochai Benkler: Fear of a Networked Fourth Estate/Wikileaks: Guantánamo leaks lift lid on world's most controversial prison/GritTV: Wikileaks Guantanamo Files/Bruce Ackerman: A Statement on Private Manning's Treatment/Yochai Benkler: A Free Irresponsible Press--Wikileaks and the Battle Over the Soul of the Networked Fourth Estate
Boler, Megan. "Introduction." Digital Media and Democracy. ed. Megan Boler. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2008: 1-50./Global Voices: Advocacy/Global Voices: Citizen Media Stories From Around the World/Rising Voices/Technology for Transparency Network/Global Voices: Lingua/Global Voices Podcasts/Timothy Wu: The Master Switch - The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
Vandana Shiva: Traditional Knowledge, Biodiversity and Sustainable Living/Wesley Houp: Life by Rheotaxis/Alex Steffen: On a Sustainable Future/Eric Schlosser: Why Being a Foodie Isn't Elitist
Melanie Klein: Make-up and Hot Pink Toenails- Not Just a Girl Thing/WIMN website/resources/The Daily Show: Toemageddon 2011/Huffington Post: Slut Walk Sweeps the Nation/Jezebel: A Ten Year Old's Rant to Boys Around the World/Michael Benton: Gender and Sexuality at the Carnegie Center/Chloe Angyal: A Few Words About Reclaiming the Word "Slut"/Jos Pruitt: Racist Psychology Today article claims black women are objectively less attractive than other women/Ernesto Aguilar: Four Brief Critiques of SlutWalk’s Whiteness, Privilege and Unexamined Power Dynamics (read comments from Roc and Vaudree that critique Aguilar's claims)/Joanna Chiu: SlutWalk: Does The Media Make the Message?/Tamura Lomax: SlutWalk - A Black Feminist Comment on Media, Messages and Meaning/Sasha: Brief Guide to Not Being a Douchey Misogynist
Gaddafi Accused of Using Cluster Munitions/Beau Grosscup: Cluster Munitions and State Terrorism/"Governments Kill."
Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jetha: Sex at Dawn/:"Leanna Wolfe: On Kittens and the Very Invented Culture of Polyamory"/Barry Smiler: There's No Such Thing as Polyamory
Hate Comes to Orange County/Tea Partiers and Republican Allies Flaunt Their Racist Colors/Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights: Tea Party Nationalism
To the Best of Our Knowledge: Travel
Intelligence Squared: Is America to Blame for Mexico's Drug War/Democracy Now: Mexico - Majority of Guns Come From U.S., Hearing Begins on U.S. Efforts To Sell Weapons To Cartels
Common Sense with Dan Carlin: Pyrrhic Schadenfreude/Tim Wise: Killing One Monster, Unleashing Another: Reflections on Revenge and Revelry/Bill Shein: It's Time for Change, Not Celebration/Danny Schecter: Nailing Osama -- The Media's Delight/Maureen Dowd: "Killing Evil Doesn't Make Us Evil"/National Security Archive: The Osama Bin Laden File/Diane Roberts: Osama bin Laden was not found using torture/Noam Chomsky: There Is Much To Say/David Sirota: The Real Problem with Bin Laden Killing Video Games - Once again, the Pentagon is co-opting electronic entertainment to sell us on the military
Washington Post: Why Do Americans Still Dislike Atheists/Greta Christina: Atheists and Anger/Jennifer Michael Hecht: A History of Doubt/Ian Murphy: Militant Atheist for Congress
Colman McCarthy, et al: A Class on Nonviolence
Astroturf Organizations Spreading Propaganda: "Don't Make Me Pay"/Coal Cares (Satire)/Democracy Now: The Yes Men/Critical Art Ensemble: BioCom
Bruce Levine: Toward a Healthy Society/Chalmers Johnson: Our Managed Democracy/Dana Priest: Top Secret America/Jane Mayer: The Secret Sharer - Is Thomas Drake an enemy of the state?/Moynihan/Shane: For Anarchist, Details of Life as F.B.I. Target/Bill Moyers on His Legendary Journalism Career: "Democracy Should Be a Brake on Unbridled Greed and Power"/Scott Crow/Mike German: FBI to Expand Domestic Surveillance Powers as Details Emerge of Its Spy Campaign Targeting Activists
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