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CHUN-CHIN YU replied to the topic Week 9 photo share in the forum Organic Social Movements (Winter 2019) 5 years, 1 month ago
I selected a picture from an article i read online. The woman in the picture is Tonya, she was pepper sprayed by the police in the picture.
Source: https://www.wlrn.org/post/standing-rock-resistance-unprecedented-its-also-centuries-oldReflecting back to discussion in class, i remember we talked about a list the indigenous people had.”we are…[Read more]
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CHUN-CHIN YU replied to the topic Week 8 photo share in the forum Organic Social Movements (Winter 2019) 5 years, 1 month ago
For this week, I want to talk about #Me Too movement. In lecture, i learned that the movement is about having women speak up for themselves, particularly those who suffered sexual assault, but why now?. I found this article online explaining why didn’t speak up earlier when it happened. The article shared that there were some sexual assault…[Read more]
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CHUN-CHIN YU replied to the topic Week 7 photo share in the forum Organic Social Movements (Winter 2019) 5 years, 1 month ago
For this week’s theme, I chose a picture from William Royster’s protest in 2014.
The protest in 2014 is a reaction to the death of unarmed civilians, killed by two police officers. Michael Brown was shot to death and Eric Garner died in hospital, heart attack, due to a police choke-hold. The article talks about the debate of police using deadly…[Read more]
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CHUN-CHIN YU replied to the topic Week 6 photo share in the forum Organic Social Movements (Winter 2019) 5 years, 2 months ago
I found this picture in someone’s blog/website called “Faith&Coffee Blog” with Eric Ledermann.
In class discussions, I heard a lot about mistreatment towards someone before even knowing them and the conflict of racial identity of an individual being…[Read more]
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CHUN-CHIN YU replied to the topic Week 5 photo share in the forum Organic Social Movements (Winter 2019) 5 years, 2 months ago
For the theme: The afterlife civil rights movement, The Hip Hop generation, I found a book by Todd Boyd called “The death of Civil Rights and the Reign of Hip Hop” written in August, 2004.
Todd’s perspective on hip hop being the efficient way of advancing current civil rights movement suggest a transition in getting the message out there. Todd…[Read more]
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CHUN-CHIN YU replied to the topic Week 4 photo share in the forum Organic Social Movements (Winter 2019) 5 years, 2 months ago
Source: https://myhero.com/grace_lee_boggs_shetterly_2011
Image: Grace Lee Boggs
Artist:Robert Shetterly
Grace Lee Boggs’s quote in the painting says: “People are aware that they cannot continue in the same old way but are immobilized because they cannot imagine an alternative. We need a vision that recognizes that we are at one of the great…[Read more]
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CHUN-CHIN YU replied to the topic Week 3 photo share in the forum Organic Social Movements (Winter 2019) 5 years, 2 months ago
This is a picture of Bob Dylan singing “Only a Pawn in their Game” in Greenwood Mississippi July 2, 1963. (source: https://www.pophistorydig.com/topics/dylan-only-a-pawn/)
Bob Dylan is famous for his protest songs and his style of music in the folk music community. This song talks about the bigger issue beyond the murder of civil rights leader M…[Read more]
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CHUN-CHIN YU replied to the topic Week 2 photo share in the forum Organic Social Movements (Winter 2019) 5 years, 3 months ago
The image I selected for week 2’s theme is a quote in a book called “The Cost of Discipleship” by Dietrich Bonhoeffer in 1937. Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a German theologian and an anti-Nazi dissident. I felt this image or this particular quote is relevant to this week’s theme because of the reoccurring motif of silence, and because i feel Die…[Read more]
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CHUN-CHIN YU joined the group Organic Social Movements (Winter 2019) 5 years, 3 months ago