Media and Social Movements Class Sylabus

Media and Social Movements Suggested Reading List

Connie Hogarth is a legendary community activist who led WESPAC (Westchester People’s Action) for many years, where she tirelessly organized around local, regional and national issues and ceaselessly promoted social change and economic justice.

When she retired, it didn’t mean for a moment that she would stop working – only that she would start something new. At the urging of David Eisenhower, a member of the sociology faculty at Manhattanville College in Purchase, NY (close by where President and Mrs. Clinton now live) Connie agreed to found the Connie Hogarth Center for Social Action on the Manhattanville campus. She put together a large and diverse board of local and national activists, and invited Nan to be a member of the Steering Committee.

In the first year of activities, the Center has collaborated with a wide range of groups, both on campus and off, to present an impressive program of activities, conferences, teach-ins and classes. A sampler:

• Teach-In on East Timor
  
• Initiated the Henry Schwarzchild Lecture series on the Dealth Penalty
  
• Candlelight Vigil and Forum on Police Brutality and the Amadou Diallo case
  
• Teach-In on the School of the Americas
  
• Lecture on Native Americans and Racist Oppression
  
• Teach-In on Stereotypes and Misconceptions about Student Participation in Academic Resource Programs and Racism in Higher Education
  
• Participation in national rally and civil disobedience against the death penalty
  
• Informal student discussion with noted historian and activist Howard Zinn
  
• Classes on Introduction to Organizing; Photography for Social Change; International Policy, and related topics.
  
  

In the Winter 2000 semester, Nan offered an undergraduate course through the Sociology Department in Media and Social Movements. Focusing on the intersection of technology, politics, regulation and economics, the course used audio, video, websites and newspaper clippings to illustrate how mainstream and alternative media each reflect a radically different social and political agenda.

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Nan’s involvement with the Connie Hogarth Center puts her in touch with the current concerns, experiences and influences of today’s college students. At the same time, it allows her to apply her own political experiences, rooted in the counter-culture of the 60’s, the anti-Vietnam war movement of the 70’s, and the alternative media movement of the 80’s, to contemporary issues facing these students and others.

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