ProjecT Labs: Week 2: Exploring Social Justice and Sustainability Part I

1. ProjecT Labs: Week 2: Exploring Social Justice and Sustainability Part I

2. Agenda 2 • First Activity (10 mins) • Introductions • Overall Objectives & Goals for this Lab • Credit Sheets- everyone fill out/sign top and give back • Second Activity (30 mins) • Define key terms • Third Activity (20 mins) • Explore how this connects to readings & class • Fourth Activity (15 mins) • Explore how this connects to issues you are passionate about

3. Introductions 3 • What is your name, class, and major? • Why did you choose your major? • What brought you to GIIP?

4. Overall Objectives For Project Labs 4 • Provide Support for students trying to identify social justice & sustainability issues • Assist students in acquiring off and online research skills to support projects • Assist students in writing converting a social problem into a project “needs statement” • Assist students in negotiating and connecting with organizations so as to understand community “needs” and community partnerships • Strengthen peer support so as to create a mutual learning environment • Ultimate goal is more a polished “needs statements” as foundation for better projects

5. Credit Sheets 5 • Pass out sheets • Everything is already filled out except student data • PLEASE FILL OUT TOP and GIVE BACK by end of class

6. Goals for Today 6 • Understand GIIP’s key terms & definition of social justice and sustainability issues. • Define and distinguish between macro/micro issues, organizations and best practices. • Assist students to explore and refine realistic projects and “need statements” • Begin to think about what social justice or environmental issues you are most passionate about and would want to work on this year.

7. Defining Key Terms 7 What is “Social (in)Justice” What is “Sustainability”? • Social Justice is a process, not an outcome, which • Seeks fair (re)distribution of resources, opportunities, and responsibilities • Challenges the roots of oppression and injustice • Empowers all people to exercise self-determination and realize their full potential • Builds social solidarity and community capacity for collaborative action.” • (UCB- School of Social Welfare, Symposium on Social Justice) • 'Sustainable Development' is a broad - and often misused - concept that encompasses integration of economic objectives, such as efficiency and prosperity; social objectives, such as equality and social justice; and ecological objectives, such as the conservation and sustainable management of the biosphere • ( Foundation for Sustainable Development, www.fsd.nl) • Used two ways in class: environmental sustainability & long term sustainability

8. Macro vs. Micro 8 Macro Issues Micro Issues • Big • Global • Theoretical • Local • Visible • Experiential

9. Defining Key Terms continued.. 9 • Brainstorm: • What are examples of macro and micro social justice and sustainability issues? • For example: • Macro: Violence Against Women • Micro: Domestic Abuse in Santa Cruz

10. Macro vs. Micro Problems 10 Macro Micro • Domestic Abuse in SC • Fundraiser project for Planned Parenthood clinic • Restaurant Workers Wage Increase • ESL Education Support in Salinas • Overfishing campaign at Lake Washington • Toxic Waste dumps near Oakland • Anti-bullying Campaign in Iowa • Repealing “Stand Your Ground” Law in FL • State Advocacy around the Dream Act • Mapping lobby spending on local bills • Serbian peace camp • Teaching immigrant parents computer skills • Edward Snowden Coalition • Anti-Racist Coalition against “Stop & Frisk” Policy • Violence Against Women • Women’s Reproductive Rights • Labor Rights • Access to Education • Environmental Sustainability • Environmental Racism • LGBT Rights • Minority Rights and Equality • Immigrant Rights • Government Transparency • Conflict Prevention & Resolution • Digital Divide • Free Speech • Justice System/ Prison Reform

11. Next... 11 • We’ll connect these concepts to the Assigned Readings in 30A • Identify Macro and Micro Social Justice Issues, Tactics used, Key Actors/ Organizations (Taken from Keck & Sikkink pages 41-58)

12. Macro Issue 1: Abolition Movement 12

13. Macro Issue 1: Abolition Movement 13 Brainstorm: What Organizations/ Key Actors were involved in the movement?

14. Abolition: Key Actors/ Organizations: 14

15. Macro Issue 1: Abolition Movement 15 What were those key actors doing to bring about success? Another way to say it: what were their tactics or (because they were successful) best practices?:

16. Abolition: Best Practices 16 - international political pressure (unitarians), - petition, - boycott, - itinerant speakers, - anti-slavery conferences (no women or blacks - allowed), - books (H.B Stowe)

17. Macro Issue 2: Women’s Suffrage 17

18. Key Actors & Organizations: 18 Women’s Christian Temperance Union Women’s Social and Political Union International Council on Women • Grassroots recruitment of 86 local women's organizations • AKA • “Suffragettes" • More moderate organization, interested in making women’s work easier

19. Best Practices of International Woman Suffrage Association Radical civil disobedience, and legal opposition Bi-yearly international congress meetings Exchange of books and pamphlets Speaking tours Suffrage: Best Practices 19

20. Best Practices of Suffragettes: Confronting speakers Chaining selves to fences Street demonstrations Hunger strikes Imprisonment Suffrage: Best Practices 20

21. Lastly: Free write Activity 21

22. Free Write 22 • Let’s connect this to what we want to accomplish this quarter and year in GIIP! • Take 5-10 minutes and write what comes to mind when we ask: What is a macro or micro issue you are passionate about? What got you interested in this issue?

23. Share! 23 • For the next 10 minutes share what you have with one another