SCPA 511-1 CED Project course - Part II: Difference between revisions
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Class 1 (May): Big Picture: Capitalism and Revolutionary Traditions and Alternatives | == Class 1 (May): Big Picture: Capitalism and Revolutionary Traditions and Alternatives == | ||
The goal of this class is to examine the two major left traditions of fundamental social change-anarchism and Marxism and how they may come into a synthesis. The reading below explores that debate. This constitutes a framework to discuss where we are in the current context and how working in the community fits into this. | The goal of this class is to examine the two major left traditions of fundamental social change-anarchism and Marxism and how they may come into a synthesis. The reading below explores that debate. This constitutes a framework to discuss where we are in the current context and how working in the community fits into this. | ||
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Class 2 (June): Debating the Grassroots- ACORN versus The Christian Coalition- What Lessons | == Class 2 (June): Debating the Grassroots- ACORN versus The Christian Coalition- What Lessons == | ||
Guest lecturer-Bob Fisher teaches urban studies and social work at University f Connecticut in Hartford. He has written extensively on all aspects of community organizing. He has recently finished editing a book on ACORN and is writing on lessons for organizing from the Right. We have been working throughout the year on the assumption that the community is a place of progressive social change but need to also understand how the right has used organizing techniques and approaches to gain power and promote their own agenda. On the progressive side ACORN is one of the more successful grassroots community organizing initiatives. What are the similarities and differences, what lessons can we learn? | Guest lecturer-Bob Fisher teaches urban studies and social work at University f Connecticut in Hartford. He has written extensively on all aspects of community organizing. He has recently finished editing a book on ACORN and is writing on lessons for organizing from the Right. We have been working throughout the year on the assumption that the community is a place of progressive social change but need to also understand how the right has used organizing techniques and approaches to gain power and promote their own agenda. On the progressive side ACORN is one of the more successful grassroots community organizing initiatives. What are the similarities and differences, what lessons can we learn? | ||
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http://www.cc.org/ | http://www.cc.org/ | ||
Class 3 (July) Learning and Contesting Knowledge in Community Organizations: | |||
== Class 3 (July) Learning and Contesting Knowledge in Community Organizations: == | |||
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Class 4 (August): | == Class 4 (August): == | ||
Presentations and Wrap-Up | Presentations and Wrap-Up | ||