Wednesday 4\/25 – Research Lightning Round<\/strong>. Prepare a 2-minute presentation<\/strong> \/ mini-PechaKucha (instructions are under the “Research Project<\/a>” tab above) about your research project. We may have distinguished guests; polish and practice MANY times before Wednesday. Your abstract is due<\/strong>, preferably in electronic form, so I can post it online easily.<\/p>\n Monday 4\/30 – Occupy Citizenship. Reading: GC 287-314 and explore some of the links below, to look at either the #ows (Occupy Wall Street) movement which started last summer\/fall, or mobilization and citizenship issues in the 2012 presidential election year. Your RP#4 is due<\/strong> – instructions are under the “Paper Prompts<\/a>” tab above. Where do you get your political news? What mobilizes or empowers you politically as a citizen? http:\/\/www.occupytogether.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n NPR, 2\/9\/12 “Occupy Wall Street, The History and Future So Far”<\/a> (Talk of the Nation program)<\/p>\n Huffington Post article 3\/16\/12 “Occupy Wall Street: 6 Months Later<\/a>”<\/p>\n The99%Declaration.org<\/a> (which is running a new “Continental Congress” this coming June 2012)<\/p>\n Pew Research Center for People and the Press<\/a><\/p>\n Scholastic Magazine’s coverage of Election 2012<\/a> (okay, I know it’s aimed at middle schoolers but it’s one of the few fairly neutral sources out there)<\/p>\n Gallup Election Polling 2012<\/a><\/p>\n RockTheVote.com<\/a><\/p>\n Project VoteSmart.org<\/a><\/p>\n Vote411.org<\/a> (by the nonpartisan League of Women Voters)<\/p>\n NYTimes Election\/Politics coverage<\/a> (it also has a mobile app<\/a> for iPhone or Android)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Monday 4\/23 – The State of Things. Applying RV Ch 9 to the Massachusetts story. Also, last soapboxes. You will get your research papers back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,6,7],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-class-sessions","category-links","category-spr12","tag-spr12"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi320\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi320\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi320\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi320\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi320\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi320\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi320\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi320\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi320\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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