We are super-excited about the course we are teaching this summer at the UA Institute for Math and Science for Young Women
We have been written up in
The New Yorker Protest U
Indy Kids Occupy Summer School
the Metro: Occupy Summer School teaches teens how to stage a protest
and broadcast on German radio
Course Outline
- Week One: Introduction to Activism
- Introduction: Occupy and activism
- Ale: Why I became an activist
- Laborers Local 79: what can be achieved through organizing
- Gerald: What went wrong in Baltimore? Protest, safety, and the media
- Marni: Creative Activism, and how to make a splash
- Week Two: Dive into topics
- Cathy: Debt, or why high school is free but college is expensive
- Walmart organizers: The fight for fair wages
- Stop Mass Incarceration Now Network
- Suresh: Inequality in America
- Week Three: Action
- Planning the protest
- Constructing the materials
- Carrying out the protest
- Writing up the results
When and where:
Occupy Summer School will debut at the
UA Institute for Math and Science for Young Women
July 6 – 24, Monday to Friday, 9 AM to 11 AM
Resources:
- “‘Our Demand Is Simple: Stop Killing Us.’ How a group of black social-media activists built the nation’s first 21st-century civil rights movement.” NYTimes article by Jay Caspian Kang (May 4, 2015)
- Photos of Occupy Wall Street, November 13, 2011 (note: link temporarily for revision).
- Ferguson curriculum
- Free course on Human Centered Design starting May 12.
- Paper Tiger Television
- Moodle admin tools