Essay About Social Movement And Type Of Group Action

Cpol Politics of Social Movement
CPOL601Thursday, Day 1Movie; What democracy looks likeHold hands, individually we are only a tiny piece but togeather we are unified and we can togeather stopOC tear gas, 100 fatalitiesWTO determined every environment, safety and labour barrier is illegalWar cry; difference is strengths, dont want to live in homogenous cultureWellco factory paid $1.6 an hourFined for talking at workPrisoned if pregnantQuestions;What was the focus of the first big demonstration?Focus on systemic change, use of media on how to ommunicate What tactics did they use?What was new about it?What ended up being the focus?Militarization of the policeUnited states imprisoned more of their people than anyoneUS has private prisons3 days of tear gas, no arrestsG20; used mass arrests (1100)Friday, Day 2Awakening; Civil Rights MovementMontgomeryRoso parks Segregation; schools, busDec 1 1955, rosa parks stood upBus boycottCant sha’me segregqtion 4%non violent persistence, kept waking month after month 7-8  mlesome people would top for theobey tlsedmass orotestboycott hurt the bus companies KKK held a rallyBus segregation unconstitutionallyThat day KKK rode the walksWouldn’t have without a womenRole of religion. Strong from solidationPromote fear, so people are scared to out and fight indiaKilling of emmet,the ralliesatarted fter tht Themes; overpoerin =g fear, coming tofetejeCame down to slaveryHow it mainatains affects of slavery Social movement; type of group action/ they are large, informal,  grouping of people and or organization focussed on specific politics or socials issues. Carrying out, resisting or undoing social change. Sustained series of interactions between power holders and persons successfully claiming to speak on behalf of a constituency lacking formal representation. Based on 60sAnti-war movement Children of working class can go to universityWomen of privilege Characteristics;Organized around a broad common issueSometimes expressed differently civil rights, black power, womens liberation, womens DiverseNot poltical partyKey movementsRosa parks refuses to give up her seat 1955Freedom rides 1961Registering black people to voteThe civil rights part, black becoming apart of our systemMarch on Washington 1963Finally civil rights bill in 1968New TacticsDirect action; civil disobedienceBreak the law to change an unjust law Tradition defined by Henry Thoreua and perfected by Gandhi as an effective collective-action tactic for disempowered people. The harsher and more excessive the reaction from police and authorities, the better the advertisement of injusticeEx; opening an abortion clinic when it was illegalSitting down when your ordered to disperse by the policeBlack power movementWe hear less about the more radical parts of the civil rights movement like Malcolm X and the black panthers. Armed self defense, black powerDealing with black self worthNot internalizing the oppressionElements of the New LeftPort Huron Declaration 1962Privilege people, don’t like the world they inherited Maintained student movement, in france did not remain student movementParis 1968Anti-war MovementWas youth movement for a whileAnti-colonial StrugglesStarted form a model for the more radical people on the new leftWere violent Draft dodgesResist going to VietnamGot health reasons to not go, or fled to Canada and trudeau let them stay Kent State 1970New left falls apart and weatherman form revolutionary violence becomes fashional weather, black panthers Became radicalThe weathermen were aggressive violence, trying not to kill peopleBlack panthers, revolutionary self-defence. Armed themselves against policeIn Canada most important element was the Front Liberation due Quebec, FLQOrganized in underground cellsDid violence like weathermen, blew up mailboxes (symbols of civil power)Didn’t agree with their tactics but agreed with missionQuebec; quite revolution But Maoists groups were huge in Quebec and there were important far left groups in English Canada as wellPeace and LoveHippies believed we can change the world by how we perceive the worldFirst environmentalistWanted to go back to the farmHippiesYouth movement spread not just on campus but also about living life the way we want to live it. Diggers in YorkvilleRiverboat, folk clubHang out in the streets, smoke weed, sleep thereHippies, alternate cultureSex, drugs and rock and rollMost famously Woodstock in 1968Women’s LiberationRole of women were proneThere for sex, make coffeeTackling RacismThe left tended to focus on the class struggle and migrant labour as the ‘reserve army of labour’ which served to postpone tackling the problem of racismRacism is economic, social and cultural The left tended to focus on the class struggle and migrant labour as the reserve army of labour, which served to postpone tackling the problem of racismRacism under capitalismRadicalized under classRacialized groups have lower wages and higher levels of unemployment than white workerThe wage gap is about 25 percentIn 2001, the unemployment rate for people boomOvert and systemic Overt racism is easy to identify and educate against. Systemic racism has proven to be much more difficult An important difference between the liberal and radical perspectives on race and racism lies in the insight that the ideologies of racism are not just matters of individual prejudice but can permeate structures eg; Ryerson task force on racism Islamaphobia In response to the terrorism of the few, we have created a fear of anyone who is from the Middle East or practices the Muslim religion, going as far as calling the so-called war against terrorism a war of civilizationWar against Judaism-Christian and MuslimThe more extreme language of the war against terrorism recalls the language of the early days of colonialismRacism in USWhile the civil rights movement created legal equality for African Americans in the United States, in reality they are still far from equality.Ta-Neshi CoatesMigrant workersMigrant workers who are forced to leave their home and work in richer countries to provide for their families are almost all people of colour and face terrible discrimination with few rightsSex trade is epidemic and almost all those enslaved are women of colorMovements against racismDay 3, Saturday Oct 24Colonialism Post war reconstructioncreate international governments to make the world a better place for the peopleinstitutions they created shifted gearin Bretton woods, 1944 then 1948 GATHoly trinityout of Bretton woods came the world bank and the international montery fund and later GATT that gave rise t WTOEarly resistancebecause Lend tons of money to the global south first resistance was the structure list poor countries would stay poor, only way for poor countries to develop was to deal from international developsnow protection is a bad wordin global south, nationalists practiced protectionismbecause the coniditons put on mean they remain poorvibrant period of national development, stong welfare stateduring 60s,70sCanada had bigger resistance to neo-liberalism than other countriesWashington consensus or neo-liberalism; first form of capitalism, liberal in the way of americans as in left, lack of regulation, free market, trickle down economicsFree the corporation to make money and it will trickle downResistance in the 1970sAid doing more harm than goodLoans, often to dictators, increased debtLoans had conditions, and high interest ratesPushed free-market development expanding either primary resuorces or low-value, labour intensive exportsCritique developed in NorthBeginning of anti-globalizationResistance in south by local activists (chico dam project in phlipine)Washington consensusWashington consensus or free trade is ideology of US since anti-commnism ceased to be usefulSingle sustainable model for national successGet rid of all barriers to maximum profits for coportations The only true freedom is economic freedom to buy and sellchina capitalist, picked up capitalism everywhere but not democracydemocracy and capitalism not linked Cant stop cultural democracyWith capitalism (china) hard to stop cultural change Neo-liberalismNeo-liberalism is the brainchild of economist Milton Friedman. In early 1970s, he argued lasses-faire capitalism could be revived by tax cuts, reducing public spending, deregulations, and privatization of government-owned enterprises. Based on this theory, under such conditions the free market can perfectly function on its own to manage the economy. That is known the underpinning ideology of economic liberalization or neoliberalism strategyPrivatizing education, privatizing prisons and healthcareEx; reducing money sent to public schools will increase the amount of private schools, and the public will diminishTaken up by thatcher and Reagan Resistance in 1980sWent from local resistance to transnational resistanceEnvironmental groups in north noticed indigenous resistance in global southReached out to themAnti-free trade Eg. In Canada and MexicoA lot of resistance (during Mulroney time), road to industrialization, n undermining of our social programsFree trade had undermined but created more wealth in china and India, but in Canada don’t have unemployment insurance.The pressure is be similar to American systemWelfare today is the same as it was in the 1960s, no increase even if increase in amount of poor peopleNo national housing program anymoreCanada used to have progressive tax programCurrent leaders of anti-globalization movements likeBefore SeattleStruggle against structural adjustment policies 1980sMost protests arose in Latin AmericaIndigenous and peasant movements arose to fight threats against mining and oil drilling, privatizationEg. Ogoni people alliance with Northern NGOsAnti-corporate activismAnti-sweatshop activismAnti-free trade in Canada/US/MexicoDefeat of MAI lead by Council of Canadians in 1996Global agreement on investment Zapatistas Indigenous group in Northern Mexico, fight for their rightsOrganized an armed resistance A lot of characteristics like occupy wall streetBig influence People took ideas from themAPEC protest in Vancouver in 1977Militarized police presence Police riotKey movement IssuesAgainst privatization of everythingCreating new commonsCommons; common land everyone can use, under neo-liberalism we are loosing the commonPrivatizing everything so we have no commonRight to clean environment should be a basic rightFocused on multi-national corporationsNetworks not traditional politics Comparison with 60s Movement60s movementFocuses on the stateLocal and nationalHierarchal Also focused mostly on issues of global equality in the NorthFought to let refugees inPrimary focus on equalitySectarianIdeologically formed and ideologically motivated Anti-GlobalizationGlobal NetworksNot hierarchalEach affinity group does their own and then they come togetherEasier to organize and flexibleGroups that wanted to break windows, so those groups bring all the other groups Horizontal Online organizingVery easy to set-upA lot of people think they help just because they like or share the page Not an answer to talking to peopleDay 4- ThursdaySpeaker-Aboriginal Indian Act, 18761867, the government control over aboriginal peoples livesassimilate first nations into gaining control over all aspects of their lifethis legislation has devasting impactsdeveloped to legislate aboriginal peoples disappearance1 in 4 native children live in povertyhigh suicide rates, high youth suicide ratesdiabetes, 3x higher than national averageover 1200 women murderedindian act during John A. Mcdonald’s time although say assimilate, meant as extermination movie; we were children (aboriginal school experience)Day 5- FridayClimate Change- Guest Speaker