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Ellen L

Police Brutality: The Use of Excessive Force" - 0 views

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police brutality

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  • In New York City in February 1999 Amaduo Diallo was shot 19 times and killed by four white officers who fired 41 shots at him. He had no criminal record and carried only a beeper and a wallet. The officers were looking for a rape suspect. Diallo did not even fit the profile except for the fact that he was a black man
  • Ellen L on 01 Jan 12
     
    This article discusses police brutality cases, a reoccurring event in IM and Malcolm X. Often this brutality is a result of discrimination based on race, age sex, etc. 
Ellen L

The Oppression of Black People, The Crimes of This System and the Revolution We Need - 1 views

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Malcolm X oppression

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  • Conventional wisdom says that while some disparities remain, things have generally advanced for Black people in America and today they are advancing still. People like Obama and Oprah are held up as proof of this.
  • Take employment: Black people remain crowded into the lowest rungs of the ladder...that is, if they can find work at all. While many of the basic industries that once employed Black people have closed down, study after study shows employers to be more likely to hire a white person with a criminal record than a Black person without one, and 50% more likely to follow up on a resume with a “white-sounding” name than an identical resume with a “Black-sounding”2 name. In New York City, the rate of unemployment for Black men is fully 48%
  • Black infants face mortality rates comparable to those in the Third World country of Malaysia, and African-Americans generally are infected by HIV at rates that rival those in sub-Saharan Africa. Overall the disparities in healthcare are so great that one former U.S. Surgeon General recently wrote, “If we had eliminated disparities in health in the last century, there would have been 85,000 fewer black deaths overall in 2000.”5
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  • Or education: Today the schools are more segregated than they have been since the 1960s6 with urban, predominantly Black and Latino schools receiving fewer resources and set up to fail. These schools more and more resemble prisons with metal detectors and kids getting stopped and frisked on their way to class by uniformed police who patrol their halls. Often these schools spend around half as much per pupil as those in the well-to-do suburbs
  • People rebelled in hundreds of American cities,25 and the revolutionary stance of leaders like Malcolm X and forces like the Black Panther Party resonated with millions in the streets and campuses of the U.S. Many things fed into this—including, again, the international situation which, as pointed out earlier, was marked by a great upsurge in national liberation struggles and the influence of a socialist China under the leadership of Mao.
  • ome African-Americans were given opportunities to enter college and professional careers, and social programs like welfare, community clinics, and early education programs were expanded. Government spending for training and jobs that would employ Black people increased. Some discrimination was lifted in credit for housing and small businesses. Most of this was in the form of small concessions—not only did this not begin to touch the real scars of hundreds of years of terrible oppression, but discrimination continued in all of these arenas. Nonetheless, these advances were hardly insignificant.
  • To put it another way, the ’60s showed that when masses rose up in rebellion against the powers-that-be, and when that was coupled with a political stance that called out the system as the problem, and when a growing section of that movement linked itself to and learned from the revolutionary movement worldwide…well, when all that happened, you could radically change the political polarization in society
  • Ellen L on 01 Jan 12
     
    The most relevant parts of this article are the introduction and the 60's section. These discuss the struggle of the black population and the impact of leaders like Malcolm X on society. 
Evan G

In These Times 25/11 -- The Fast Food Jungle - 0 views

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Fast Food Nation

shared by Evan G on 29 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • The public health threat of fast food is even more serious: Many deadly new pathogens have arisen and spread as a direct result of changes in cattle and poultry growing, meatpacking and food preparation spurred by the rise of fast food.
  • Everyone knows that fast food jobs suck. They're greasy, low-paid, short-term, unskilled and without benefits, and among teen-agers, who fill nearly all of them, they're not even cool
  • In addition to its restaurants, McDonald's exerts near-total control over the production of commodities of which it is among the largest buyers: beef, potatoes, pork and poultry.
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  • Fast food workers rarely have benefits of any sort, and typically turn over at several hundred percent each year. And they are never, ever unionized. In addition to being low-paid and transient, fast food work is dangerous: the rate of injury in fast food jobs is among the highest of any job category.
  • But if that weren't bad enough, fast food workers are now more likely to be murdered on the job (four to five per month) than are police,
  • Evan G on 29 Sep 11
     
    Another excellent site commentating on Fast Food Nation. Honestly, I fail to see the point of searching for most of these commentaries. Nearly none of these sites about the novels say anything explicitly new or interesting which the novels did not. They're just encapsulations of the same thing. After the class puts this together, we will have hundreds of summaries of the same dumb novels.
Zach Ramsfelder

Farm Labor in the 1930s - 0 views

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grapes of wrath treatment of the worker

shared by Zach Ramsfelder on 29 Sep 11 - Cached
  • California newspapers alternated between ignoring the strike or printing the growers' side until several strikers were killed by growers at a Pixley, California rally. The reporters and photographers who rushed to cover the strike generally reported that it was growers, not strikers, who were breaking labor and other laws.
  • In Fall 1931, migrants were arriving in the state at the rate of 1,200 to 1,500 a day, an annual rate of almost 500,000 (p109).
  • State and local actions aimed to keep needy migrants out of the state. The vagrancy laws of 1933 and 1937, under which many migrants were arrested and sometimes "lent" to farmers to work off their fines, were finally repealed in 1941 as unconstitutional (Edwards vs California). Similarly, the Los Angeles police operated 16 checkpoints on the California-Arizona border to turn back migrants "with no visible means of support" in February-March 1936 until the checkpoints were ruled unconstitutional. (Loftis, p126).
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  • The Grapes of Wrath was published in April 1940, and President Roosevelt was quoted as reacting after reading it that "something must be done and done soon" to help California farm workers. (p174) Many schools and libraries banned The Grapes of Wrath, and Oklahoma Congressman Lyle Boren denounced it as "a lie, a black, infernal creation of a twisted, distorted mind." Steinbeck won the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize for literature in 1962.
  • Ellen L on 29 Sep 11
     
    States the effects of the Grapes of Wrath and gives concrete information on the masses of migrant workers and their treatment in 1930s America. Shows legal actions taken as well as position of the press during the time period
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  • Willie C on 30 Sep 11
     
    "The arrival of Okies and Arkies set the stage for physical and ideological conflicts over how to deal with seasonal farm labor and produced literature that resonates decades later, as students read and watch "The Grapes of Wrath" and farmers and advocates continue to argue over how to obtain and treat seasonal farm workers"
  • Willie C on 30 Sep 11
     
    This source takes an in debth look at the farmers and their treatment in the 1930's as well as looking forward to present day problems that are still going on.
  • Travis F on 30 Sep 11
     
    "a four-week strike in October 1933 that involved 12,000 to 18,000 workers. Workers refused to pick the 1933 crop for the $0.60 per hundred pounds offered by growers" This quote describes the workers banding together in a strike attempting to do away with the poor treatment they are receiving from the large farm owners.
  • Zach Ramsfelder on 01 Oct 11
     
    About the migration of "Okies" and "Arkies" to California, their efforts to survive in the face of abuse by Californians, and writers' attempts to make public the migrant workers' plight.
Ellen L

Class in the 1930's - 0 views

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  • many among the upper classes began to flaunt their wealth more than ever. Working class Americans, many of whom were thrown out of work by the Depression (which they often correctly blamed upon the reckless financial dealings of the upper classes) were shocked and angered by this ostentatious display of wealth.
  • They often viewed such programs as hand outs, which, as can be seen in this cover, were not somethign which the upper classes felt was their responsibility to provide. They were further angered by the actions of President Roosevelt, who catered to the mass of Americans while largely ignoring the interests of the upper classes. These factors served to heigten class tensions during a period when many Americans (both rich and poor) were already tense over their financial futures.
  • New Deal regulations helped foster significant unionization and these unions would often run into conflict with company hired police forces.
  • Ellen L on 29 Sep 11
     
    Discusses class conflict in the 1930s and, the New Deal's support of unionization. This article presents the views on the financial turmoil of the time from both the rich and poor, breaking down the reasons they dislike eachother
Zach Ramsfelder

McRage - 2 views

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fast food nation workplace safety

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  • Zach Ramsfelder on 01 Oct 11
     
    Article about why and how the environment produces so much violent crime.
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  • Willie C on 04 Oct 11
     
    This is a good source but your annotation should include how it relates to our other books like The Jungle and how Jurgis is forced into a life of crime or the Oakies, with no money to get gas forced to steal.
  • Evan G on 04 Oct 11
     
    Willie what are you talking about? It's an article about McDonald's aggression and how angry customers are clowning around and causing commotion! That doesn't mention Jurgis or Joads. It just talks about how the workers, ex-workers, and even customers of the fast food industry get incited to take aggressive action. It reminded me of the chapter of FFN where it spoke of how restaurants are robbed incredibly frequently; and said robberies even result in more deaths than police-related activities. Or something along those lines.
  • Sydney C on 04 Oct 11
     
    Hahahaha calm down ^ But this is good! It's funny that fast food restaurants are the place for so much crime when they were originally meant as a safe place for families.
Zaji Z

McDonald's Worker Arrested for Serving Cop Salty Hamburger - 1 views

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fast food nation treatment of the worker negligence

shared by Zaji Z on 30 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • A McDonald's worker in Union City, Ga., was arrested and jailed Thursday night for putting too much salt and pepper on a police officer's hamburger
  • Zaji Z on 30 Sep 11
     
    You know something wrong when someone cannot even assemble a frozen hamburger. When all it takes is to season a burger and a worker cannot even accomplish that property, it means that the workers are not so passionate in performing well in their job, which leads to a conclusion that perhaps there aren't too many incentives for the employee to even bother trying. 
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  • Ellen L on 03 Oct 11
     
    You also know something is wrong when someone gets arrested for seasoning food wrong. If it was such an obvious problem, the cop should have addressed it before eating the rest of the hamburger and getting sick. I think this shows irresponsibility on both the side of the business and the side of the government.
  • Sydney C on 04 Oct 11
     
    I would just like to say I read this and actually laughed out loud. This is absurd, and I agree with both of you! It shows how little training workers get if they can't even prepare the (almost entirely precooked) burger properly. The manager must not be well trained either, because he didn't do much to help. On the other hand, the cop didn't have much reasoning for arresting Bull. This seems like a cop using his power excessively.
  • Emily S on 04 Oct 11
     
    Yeha, it's ironic because the there are so many scandals that occur in the fast food industry already that the government ignores. Yet a worker is arrested for not seasoning a burger the right way. Ridiculous
  • Zach Ramsfelder on 04 Oct 11
     
    See, it's all about da profit. Mickey D's can't even spend the money or time to teach its employees how to put seasoning on a premade and pre-flavored (by chemicals) patty. But I think it's even more pathetic that this guy got arrested for it.
Sarah Sch

Historical Context: The Grapes of Wrath - 1 views

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grapes of wrath workers treatment of the worker america

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  • Sarah Sch on 30 Sep 11
     
    "In an attempt to defend their right to earning living wages, migrant workers tried to organize labor unions. Naturally, this was strongly discouraged by the growers, who had the support of the police force, who often used brute force. In Kern County in 1938, for example, a mob led by a local sheriff burned down an Okie camp that had become a center for union activity."
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  • Sarah Sch on 30 Sep 11
     
    This article shows "The Grapes of Wrath" in historical context. The article gives stellar historical background on the migrant farmers, government camps, and the Great Depression in general. In the above excerpt, a real event shows the cruelty and brutality of the growers in California. The article is good for supporting a thesis on the treatment of the migrant workers or their conditions.
  • Ellen L on 03 Oct 11
     
    The quote you addressed, out of context, would easily assimilate with the points made in FFN, N&D, and The Jungle as well.
  • Evan G on 04 Oct 11
     
    Oooh. Ellen, calling her out on context! Nice ;) I still think Sarah makes a decent point though. GOW and small parts of the Jungle are the only books where actual and real brutality and force are used to oppress workers. While the other books simply mention corruption or unethical practices, maybe even some law-breaking here and there, her quote addresses physical abuse and literal violence towards the workers, almost like slave-era times.
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