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Sidney Yerger replied to the topic Week 9 photo share in the forum Organic Social Movements (Winter 2019) 5 years, 1 month ago
Photo Source: http://triton.news/2017/02/spirit-night-nodapl-protesters-release-statement-intent/
Continuing our conversation about the #NoDAPL movement, I wanted to include an image from an action that happened at our very campus 2 years ago. During the 2017 Spirit Night game, student activists stormed the floor at half-time for the men’s…[Read more]
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Sidney Yerger replied to the topic Week 8 photo share in the forum Organic Social Movements (Winter 2019) 5 years, 1 month ago
For whatever reason, my image isn’t uploading this week but I have included the link above. One of the biggest points we talked about this week is the respectability of the #MeToo movement and who’s stories are actually included. For my photo, I chose a screenshot from a Tweet Cardi…[Read more]
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Sidney Yerger 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 talked a lot about the “All Lives Matter” rebuttal to the Black Lives Matter movement. I think that this image perfectly sums up why saying All Lives Matter is inappropriate. BLM isn’t a Black supremacy group looking to oppress anyone. They are a group that was created as a result of years of oppression and…[Read more]
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Sidney Yerger replied to the topic Week 6 photo share in the forum Organic Social Movements (Winter 2019) 5 years, 2 months ago
(Sorry for the late submission!)
For Week 6 we focused a lot on student activism and the need for diversity at PWI campuses. For this week’s image I decided to use a photo from our very own 2010 protests. As a result of the Compton Cookout and other instances of anti-Blackness on this campus, UCSD SAAC (Students of Affirmative Action Committee)…[Read more]
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Sidney Yerger replied to the topic Week 5 photo share in the forum Organic Social Movements (Winter 2019) 5 years, 2 months ago
I decided to use Jay-Z’s social activism work as my topic for this week’s photo share. In this photo, he promotes unity at the Get Out and Vote Event in Cleveland, OH. Even though his music doesn’t dive that deep into social justice, his work outside of the entertainment industry really ties together hip hop as a form of civil rights…[Read more]
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Sidney Yerger replied to the topic Week 4 photo share in the forum Organic Social Movements (Winter 2019) 5 years, 2 months ago
https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-43171799
For this week’s image, I chose a portrait of Claudette Colvin. I thought that she tied in perfectly to the conversations around James Baldwin, Civil Rights representation, and respectability politics. Many people recognize Rosa Park’s refusal to give up her bus seat as a major catalyst for the bus…[Read more]
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Sidney Yerger replied to the topic Week 3 photo share in the forum Organic Social Movements (Winter 2019) 5 years, 3 months ago
I unfortunately wasn’t able to find information about the photographer, but I believe the image was taken in 1958. The link to the website this image is: https://newsok.com/gallery/articleid/5390198
The photograph that I chose for this week came from the Oklahoma Civil Rights Movement of the 1960’s. I chose this picture because I think that it…[Read more]
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Sidney Yerger replied to the topic Week 2 photo share in the forum Organic Social Movements (Winter 2019) 5 years, 3 months ago
The image that I selected for this week’s theme is the Nike 30th anniversary photo of Colin Kaepernick. I feel that this photograph represents our theme for this week, because Kaepernick is in many ways a modern civil rights leader. His actions of kneeling to protest police brutality were very controversial and got him removed from the NFL.…[Read more]
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Sidney Yerger joined the group Organic Social Movements (Winter 2019) 5 years, 3 months ago