social change & resistance

Question 1

Civil Disobedience

Answer 1

when you disobey /break a law on purpose in a non-violent way in protest (because you believe it is oppressive/unjust)

Question 2

strike

Answer 2

refusal to work to protest an oppressive act, law, or treatment

Question 3

boycott

Answer 3

to refuse to buy from/shop at a certain place in protest -makes them lose money $

Question 4

litigation

Answer 4

process of taking legal action/suing to change laws bring about justice

Question 5

lobbying

Answer 5

attempting to influence policy makers/the government to make changes through letters, calls, emails, meetings

Question 6

militant (militancy)

Answer 6

to have a more aggressive/extreme/ confrontational approach to social change, vandalizing, breaking into buildings, shocking demonstrations, maybe violence

Question 7

Advocacy

Answer 7

taking action to influence others to address a social justice issue, like spreading information and awareness

Question 8

Divestment

Answer 8

as a form of resistance: When schools/businesses/people take their money/investments out of companies that are doing oppressive work

Question 9

Direct Action

Answer 9

the use of strikes, demonstrations, or other public/visible forms of protest rather than negotiation to achieve one’s demands.

OR

is when you take some sort of immediate, public physical ACTION, like a march, demonstrations, rallies, protests, walk-out, sit-in

Question 10

legislation

Answer 10

the act of making or enacting laws

Question 11

civic engagement

Answer 11

when community members identify a problem & try to help/fix it-like voter registration, volunteering, holding an education/health event in a community.

Question 12

Example of civil disobedience

Answer 12

1977-When they wanted evict the elderly Filipino residents in the I-hotel in SF turn into a parking lot, they refused to leave the building so the police were called on them to pull them out (also SNCC- sit-ins/Rosa Parks/Claudette Colvin refusing to give up bus seats to white passengers)

Question 13

Example of strike

Answer 13

1960s-The UFW United Farm Workers-led Cesar Chavez & Larry Itlilong-organized a strike of Latino & Filipino farm workers to stop picking grapes cuz they were being paid $1.25/2 a day, no bathrooms, no water, no breaks, & unsafe conditions

Question 14

Example of boycott

Answer 14

From 1965-1970 the UFW led a boycott of grapes & wine so customers @ stores stopped buying them to hurt the bosses who were mistreating the farm workers

Question 15

Example of Litigation

Answer 15

Brown v Board of Education 1954 court case where Black children sued the government for segregated schools so they ruled schools had to allow kids of all races together

Question 16

Example of militancy

Answer 16

Suffragettes (women wanting the right to vote England 1900s) set fires, broke windows, beat politicians, fought/spit on police

Question 17

Example of Direct Action

Answer 17

Judy Huemann & 100 people w/ disabilities occupied (meaning stayed & wouldn’t leave) sf federal building for disability rights for 28 days

Question 18

Example of civic engagement

Answer 18

example: St. Anthony’s is in the tenderloin in SF & offers free lunch for people who are houseless/low-income mon-fri

Question 19

example of divestment

Answer 19

The student coalition called Columbia University wants the university to divest its $13.6 billion endowment from companies w/ business ties that support the war in Israel.

Question 20

example of legislation

Answer 20

The Equal Credit Opportunity Act in 1974 made it so that women could get credit cards, loans, & bank accounts w/o being married

Question 21

ideological oppression

Answer 21

The IDEA or BELIEF that one group is better than another, and has the right to control the other group.

Examples include racism, sexism, ableism, anti-semitism

Question 22

institutional oppression

Answer 22

When an institution (an larger organization) makes oppressive laws and policies to oppress people because of their social identity.

Question 23

interpersonal oppression

Answer 23

Person to person-When a person oppresses another because of their identity with violence, abusive words, actions etc

Question 24

internalized oppression

Answer 24

When you internalize-or take in the oppression you are given from a dominant social group-and oppress yourself.

Question 25

resistance

Answer 25

to fight back and not give into oppression

Question 26

classism

Answer 26

prejudice or discrimination based on social class

Question 27

racism

Answer 27

Belief that one race is superior to another

Question 28

sexism

Answer 28

prejudice, stereotyping, or discrimination, typically against women, on the basis of sex.

Question 29

Homophobia

Answer 29

fear of and prejudice against homosexuality

Question 30

xenophobia

Answer 30

Discrimination, fear, and hatred of immigrants/foreigners

Question 31

Albeism

Answer 31

System that disadvantages people with disabilities

Question 32

Islamphobia

Answer 32

dislike of or prejudice against Islam or Muslims, especially as a political force.

Question 33

Anti-semitism

Answer 33

Discrimination and/or hatred of Jewish people