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JONA ALMAYDA replied to the topic Week 9 photo share in the forum Organic Social Movements (Winter 2019) 5 years, 1 month ago
For this week’s photo share I chose to focus on this image taken by Jack Healy used in an article titled “Occupying the Prairie: Tensions Rise as Tribes Move to Block a Pipeline.” This photo portrays a very signicant issue when a company in Texas launched a project creating the Dakota Access pipeline. When this project was publicized, it initi…[Read more]
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JONA ALMAYDA replied to the topic Week 7 photo share in the forum Organic Social Movements (Winter 2019) 5 years, 2 months ago
For this week’s topic, we have started to discuss the Black Lives Matter movement and the importance of educating people about the movement’s true vision for global justice. During the class conversation, one of the main points that struck out to me was the awareness and understanding of seeking out justice due to the continuous struggles that the…[Read more]
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JONA ALMAYDA replied to the topic Week 6 photo share in the forum Organic Social Movements (Winter 2019) 5 years, 2 months ago
<p style=”text-align: left;”>For this week’s topic I chose this documentary called “Precious Knowledge” because it portrayed a controversial debate on the importance of Ethnic Studies within the curriculum. The filmmakers, Ari Luis Paulo and Eren Iasabel McGinnis, documented the engagement of students within the Mexican American Studies Progr…[Read more]
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JONA ALMAYDA replied to the topic Week 5 photo share in the forum Organic Social Movements (Winter 2019) 5 years, 2 months ago
For this week’s topic on the Hip Hop generation, I wanted to share J. Cole’s song titled “Change” which was released in 2016 in his album, “4 Your Eyez Only.” I chose to focus on this song specifically because his choice of lyrics and the way the music video portrayed his message was in an interesting way. First off, the image I included was the…[Read more]
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JONA ALMAYDA replied to the topic Week 4 photo share in the forum Organic Social Movements (Winter 2019) 5 years, 2 months ago
In honor of Superbowl Sunday, I thought it would be appropriate to revisit the empowering perfomance by Beyonce during the half time show in 2016. Beyonce has continously produced varieties of music, but in recent years she has successfully tackled upon issues such as police brutality, white supremacy, self-love (centralize on African American…[Read more]
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JONA ALMAYDA replied to the topic Week 3 photo share in the forum Organic Social Movements (Winter 2019) 5 years, 3 months ago
For this week’s theme we focused more on James Baldwin’s life story as an African American who not only escaped social injustice but also abandoned the very country who drove him to resent the place he should have called home. I thought it was interesting to be discussing Baldwin’s influence within the civil rights movement along with Malco…[Read more]
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JONA ALMAYDA replied to the topic Week 2 photo share in the forum Organic Social Movements (Winter 2019) 5 years, 3 months ago
During this week we focused upon activists that pioneered the civil rights movement. This image I chose demonstrating this week’s theme, is a picture by an unknown photographer titled “No Child is Free Unless All are Free” which was taken during the late 1950’s. The picture illustrates the continuing influence of MLK throughout communit…[Read more]
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JONA ALMAYDA joined the group Organic Social Movements (Winter 2019) 5 years, 3 months ago