Week 8

Participation: Each week students are required to make one substantive post and one response to another student on the class blog (professorcrain.org) under DeAnza, Poli 1 & the specific week. Each student must post by Wednesday of that week and reply to their classmates by Friday of each week. 

These posts should highlight one of the three prompts below:

1) summary of lecture with critical thinking questions (150 words)

2) media (newspaper articles or relevant videos) and a 150 word description of its relevancy to the reading and/or lecture (cover two major ideas)

3) 2-3-minute video logs on your perspectives in the knowledge gained from lecture /reading material

UPCOMING CAMPUS EVENTS

On Wednesday Nov. 20th Chris Lepe, campaigner with Transform California, will talk about local campaigns to bring transportation justice to Santa Clara County. 12:30-2:00 in L84
 
Our last speaker on Nov. 27th will be Rabiah Khalid, policy advocate with Asian Americans for Community Involvement, who will be discussing the campaign to implement the Affordable Care Act in Santa Clara County.
12:30-2:00 in L84

Monday – Veterans Day
Tuesday – Review of Community Based Research Projects & Different types of Activism in the Bay Area
Wednesday – Social Action and Politics in the Bay Area & US Military Interventions
Brief History of Military Interventions (10 examples) WASHINGTON POST ARTICLE
Thursday –"Big Brother" and surveillance in our lives - The Case of Edward Snowden
Edward Snowden 1
NSA Program
Wikileaks



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