Social Movements Week Ten

On Monday will look at the internal dynamics within ideological groups and examine several case studies, including the split between Stalinists and Trotskyists in the communist movement.

On Wednesday, we will discuss the "Netroots" movement and the extra credit assignment.

Quiz Ten will open no later than April 4 and close promptly at 4 a.m.. on April 8.  You will have two chances to take this quiz.  To find your score after the first try, go to the Gradebook in Sakai.  It will give you a total score, but not item scores.


Reading:
  1. Turncoats and True Believers, Chapter 5 and Chapter 9
  2. There is a powerpoint covering these chapters in Sakai/Resources/WeekTen called IdeologicalGroups.ppt.
Links and Notes:

Video:       Views of the island of Grenada Ft. George overlooking the city of St. George's, where Maurice Bishop of the New Jewel Movement was executed, leading to the 1983 invasion by the US and a group of Caribbean allies; examples of the patriotism of the Grenadan people, who paint everything in the national colors; scenes of devastation left from Hurricane Ivan, which hit in 2004, leaving all the churches and many hones without roofs; Rastamen playing football, too!  Maurice Bishop giving a speech in a meeting.    Life and death of the People's Temple. 

Netroots movement: 
From Barry's Boys to the Deaniacs.     Direct mail, talk radio and the Internet. 
Wikipedia article on Netroots.  and e-Democracy. 
Howard Dean campaign.    Deaniac shirt.  Deaniacs for Edwards. 
Jonathan Chait, The Left's New Machine. 
Ilan Greenberg, Changing the Rules of the Game  -  the Genocide Olympics?

Video:  Dean's Scream  -  Deaniacs vs. Obamamania -

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