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March 8, 2019 at 1:56 pm #4681Sidney YergerParticipant
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 floor and occupied the space well into the third quarter. They were protesting both the DAPL and protesting that UCSD invests in an energy company that was assisting in the construction of the pipeline.
I included this image for multiple reasons. First, I believe that it shows DAPL as the global issue that it is. Time and time again countries have seen their water supply tampered with and poisoned to further the desires of a corporate entity. Second, I think it another show of solidarity and allyship that we commonly see in social movements.
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March 3, 2019 at 4:20 pm #4614Sidney YergerParticipant
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 B made where she defended the comments she made in her April 2018 Cosmopolitan interview. Both in the interview and in the Tweet, she discusses how women who are strippers or work as extras in music videos face sexual harassment and assault. No matter how much these women speak up about the abuses they face, the women are often silenced because they are seen as “ho’s” and therefore unable to be assaulted. While Cardi B does at times have questionable beliefs, I think in this instance the points that she’s making about who gets to be included in feminist movements is something that we all should be paying closer attention to.
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February 24, 2019 at 3:58 pm #4369Sidney YergerParticipant
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 marginalization, including police brutality. BLM is a group that has been formed to (once again) remind America that Black people are humans and should be treated as such. I feel that this image perfectly sums up a counter-argument for All Lives Matter people – that the problem isn’t us saying Black Lives Matter, it’s that we constantly have to beg America to treat us like humans.
Photo Source: https://mesyman.tumblr.com/post/154286626045
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February 18, 2019 at 3:18 pm #4211Sidney YergerParticipant
(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) orgs held protests and teach ins to bring attention to the ways in which UCSD falls short in protecting marignalized students. Students from many different backgrounds and even some professors came together to hold UCSD accountable for it’s lack of inclusivity for Black students. The series of protests are now referred to as “Black Winter” and as a result of non-stop organizing and allyship, UCSD constructed the Black Resource Center as a safe space for Black students and mandated that every student take at least one DEI course before graduating. While there is still more work to be done in order to make this campus a truly welcoming space for Black and brown students, the solidarity shown in the Black Winter protests drew attention to UCSD’s shortcomings, served as a catalyst for many positive changes, and and reaffirmed the power that students have when they work together.
The image selected for this week comes from one of the teach in protests that took place in 2010. As you can tell, the protest took place in Price Center which made it impossible for students and customers to get in and out of the shopping center. I would argue that this protest was highly successful because it sh0wed the value that EDI education has on this campus and by punishing UCSD economically they were forced to take the student protests seriously.
Source: John Im and MG Abugan, 2010
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February 8, 2019 at 7:58 pm #3796Sidney YergerParticipant
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 activism. While he has always been somewhat politically active throughout his rap career, recently Jay-Z has really worked hard to shed light on the injustices happening to the Black community. He’s produced multiple docu-series about the Trayvon Martin and Kalief Browder cases, called for artists to boycott performing for the NFL, donated over $1.5 million to the Black Lives Matter movement, has bailed out dozens of BLM protesters from jail, and bailed out fathers for Father’s Day. Most recently, he hired an attorney to help release 21 Savage from ICE custody. Jay-Z has been using his hip hop platform to advocate for social justice, which I think contributes to a long history of hip hop activism.
Photo Info: Taken by Justin Sullivan, Nov 2016
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February 3, 2019 at 2:47 pm #3694Sidney YergerParticipant
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 boycott of the Civil Rights Movement. However, very few people know that she was not the first person to do so. Claudette Colvin was 15 years old when she was arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white person, nine months before Rosa Parks did. While there can be countless explanations as to why her actions didn’t spark protest the way Parks’ did (Colvin was a teenager and Parks was a leader in the Montgomery NAACP, for starters) there isn’t any justifiable reason as to why it isn’t well known that she was the first woman to be arrested for refusing to give up her seat. I believe that this erasure is due to the fact that Colvin was a teenage mother. The 1960’s Civil Rights Movement depended upon respectability politics and a being teen mother obviously didn’t fulfill the movement’s vision of a “respectable Black person”. This links directly to our conversations about James Baldwin, because is sexuality also caused him to be erased from Civil Rights conversations for decades. I hope that as time goes on, more hidden activists like Colvin and Baldwin are able to get the acknowledgement they deserve.
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January 25, 2019 at 1:46 pm #3355Sidney YergerParticipant
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 sums up a lot of where the success of the Civil Rights movement comes from. First, I think that the most important thing to remember is that a lot of people were fighting for the rights of themselves and their children. The Emmett Till case is actually what sparked the national Civil Rights Movement, as Black people were tired of seeing their children being killed. I think this image also ties back to the idea that social justice movements are geared more towards the children who are watching what’s happening and are more likely to shape their behavior to do the right thing. Finally, I think that this image shows that children are able to discern right from wrong and I love to see that the children in this photo were advocating for their own rights.
The context of this photo was that a school teacher and 13 Black children ages 6 to 13 in Oklahoma staged a sit-in at their local diner in order to demand integration. The children were assaulted and yelled at, but they were eventually served food after 2 days of protesting. I feel like this also ties in well with the theme of the week because it’s a reminder that while there were charismatic Civil Rights leaders who served as the face of the cause, ultimately it was the work of the people that lead to change.
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January 16, 2019 at 1:43 pm #3073Sidney YergerParticipant
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. Since then, he has founded the “Know Your Rights” campaign and has donated thousands of dollars to various causes. He also has participated in various protests. While the change that he’s inspired hasn’t been as monumental as MLK’s, his actions have been controversial and sparked conversations that may not have happened otherwise.
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