Agenda 8/28 Please
read this agenda daily, also here http://nampolecon.blogspot.com
Welcome. You can sit anywhere for now. We’ll have a seating
chart next week.
Please tell me how to pronounce your name correctly and if
you use a different name.
Room orientation - box to turn in assignments,
Supplies and procedures- Binders, assignment log sheets,
textbooks, chromebooks/ipads
You should get a textbook but keep it in your lockers. Macgruders’s American Government
Intro letter due Fri.
Log sheets and using supporting details in your writing.
About me – Only here on B days, contact via hnam@pps.net
Do #1 below now and be prepared to discuss, then continue
with #2 for Homework if needed – due Fri.
Political Economy Intro Letter and Survey
1 Please write an informal letter of introduction to
me. Include any information that will help me get to know you as a student and
an individual. (This will be confidential.) You may include how you learn best,
kinds of activities you enjoy, things you do really well, books you’ve enjoyed,
films you’ve liked related to the topic, special needs or concerns, problems
you’ve had with other classes/teachers, vision/seating considerations, your
gender pronouns, etc. Please include details and examples. This is also you’re
first writing sample for me to read.
2 Also tell me about what you think
about studying political and economic issues. How aware are you about political
and economic issues? How do you get information about political and economic
issues? What are some issues you are most interested in or want to learn more
about? What should we get out of this class? (Be specific and honest.)
3 Do you have a Chromebook or laptop
that you can bring to class? (If not, go the textbook room and check one
out).
Turn in letters
Log sheets and using relevant
and accurate supporting details in your writing.
You should get a textbook but
keep it in your lockers
Getting to know each other and our ideas about political, economic
and social issues.
What surprised you about your classmates? What were easiest or
more difficult to answer?
Where does left vs right come from and what does it mean?
Liberal vs Conservative?
Examine political and economic policies and ideas and
identify them on political spectrum and complete Left/Right reading
and worksheet –Discuss with a partner and concisely summarize into your own
words, focus on core, not outliers
Assignment Log
Political Econ Intro Letter and Survey
Log 1.1 Political Econ Scavenger Hunt
Log 1.2 Political Econ Spectrum
Bring chromebooks or laptops for next class, Wed. 9/4
Agenda 9/4
Read agenda, update log sheets, turn in letters
Log sheets and using relevant and accurate supporting
details in your writing.
More than just left and right on
political and economic ideas –
The political spectrum (single
axis) and compass (dual axis) –where do we stand?
What are other political-ideological orientations on major issues?
Do the political compass here https://www.politicalcompass.org/test
Terminology similar but
different - Anti-authoritarian vs Libertarian
Ask for help if you don’t
understand some questions and try to choose the best answer.
After doing the compass, record
your plot coordinates, sketch your place on quadrants, then read analysis that
comes with your result.
Begin writing a reflection.
1) What did you learn from your political compass results and analysis with
historical figures? 2) Look up the analysis of the 2020 and 2016 US elections with
presidential candidates on the tab to the left. How do they compare to you? What
do you notice about where the Democratic and Republican politicians stand in
relation to each other, historical figures and yourself? What similarities or
differences are most notable? How might you explain those similarities or
differences?
This political compass is a constructs - attempts to place
people’s ideas into an order for understanding – it is powerful, yet mat result
in some distortions.
Horseshoe
spectrum? No, extremes are still enemies and opposed.
Get the reading and finish your political spectrum
assignment by Friday.
Assignment Log`
Political Econ Intro Letter and Survey
Log 1.1 Political Econ Scavenger Hunt
Log 1.2 Political Econ Spectrum
Log 1.3 Political Compass reflection
Agenda 9/6
Read agenda, update log sheets, turn in letters https://nampolecon.blogspot.com
Please sit according to seating chart. Let me know if there
are any issues with your seating.
Review and sign syllabus. Discuss grading, logs, etc. Show
parents/guardian, get signature, keep in binder.
Far-right fascism: It Can’t Happen Here? http://www.thehistoryreader.com/modern-history/6-things-may-known-nazis-america/
http://time.com/5414055/american-nazi-sympathy-book https://www.smithsonianmag.com/videos/category/history/charles-lindbergh-and-the-rise-of-1940s-nazi_1/
https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2017/06/american-nazis-in-the-1930sthe-german-american-bund/529185
American First – economic nationalism
Fascism then and now https://time.com/5556242/what-is-fascism/
Right wing populism https://www.bbc.com/news/world-43301423
What are the core characteristics of
fascism? Should we be concerned about fascism now? Explain, include any ideas
about how it should be addressed.
We will finish 1st unit and turn in logs on Tuesday.
Assignment Log`
Political Econ Intro Letter and Survey
Log 1.1 Political Econ Scavenger Hunt
Log 1.2 Political Econ Spectrum
Log 1.3 Political Compass reflection
Syllabus signature
Log 1.4 Fascism
Agenda 9/10
Read agenda, update log sheets, turn in letters https://nampolecon.blogspot.com
Please sit according to posted seating chart. Check
syllabus.
Sept 11th Memorials http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/27/us/september-11th-hijackers-fast-facts/
Reflection- What do you think about this omitted
history? https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/allende-dies-in-coup
9/11/73, Chile: US
backed coup and dictatorship for neoliberal economic policies https://corpwatch.org/article/what-neoliberalism
Keep log sheets - Turn in logs
Assignment Log`
Political Econ Intro Letter and Survey
Log 1.1 Political Econ Scavenger Hunt
Log 1.2 Political Econ Spectrum
Log 1.3 Political Compass reflection
Syllabus signature
Log 1.4 Fascism
Log 1.5 Sept 11, 1973
Agenda 9/12
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Check syllabus. Turn in logs 1.1-1.5. Use tutor time to make
up work, 1.5 will not be counted late today.
The most important
public policy issue, political will for solution and public pressure
How much do you know
about climate change? Studied in school?
Last year’s United
Nations Report https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GEX05Klo5s
Unit for Global Climate Strike https://globalclimatestrike.net/
Climate Justice
Mixer – introduction to real people in the movement from around the world and
what they are doing about the climate crisis.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/15zwvnCvuW5oe771oCDwfMNefgU1SHRXm/view
Assignment Log`
Log 2.1 Climate
Justice Mixer
Agenda 9/16
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TURN IN LATE Logs
1.1-1.5. Check syllabus.
Reading groups – read
and discuss your articles and combine information for responses.
Explain the
Climate Crisis – Carbon
budget estimates (total emissions, annual rate and years), tipping point, 1.5/2oC,
acceleration and collapse, broad consequences
and interactions from fires, storms, droughts, floods, species extinctions and ecosystems
to health, economic, social, and political problems like scarcity, inequality, poverty,
racism and conflict. Obstacles to addressing crisis?
Politics of climate
crisis – What’s the difference between American people and its leaders on
the climate crisis and solutions? Whose interests do our leaders represent? How
would left vs right responses differ?
Assignment Log
Log 2.1 Climate Justice Mixer
Log 2.2 Climate
Crisis
Bring Chromebooks/laptops
Wed.
Agenda 9/18
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TURN IN LATE Logs
1.1-1.5. Check syllabus.
Explain Climate
Justice - Who has been most
responsible for the climate crisis and who suffers most? How should this factor
into addressing the crisis and migration? Just Transition.
Recommended books –
Naomi Klein, This Changes Everything, On Fire; Christian Parenti, Tropic of
Chaos
Individual and
collective responses – What is
your carbon footprint? How can you lower it? What are the limitations of
individual responses? Political
and systemic solutions?
https://www.wweek.com/news/city/2019/09/17/students-with-excused-absences-can-cut-class-to-strike-on-climate-portland-public-schools-says/
Assignment Log
Log 2.1 Climate Justice Mixer
Log 2.2 Climate Crisis
Log 2.3 Climate Justice
Log 2.4 Carbon footprint
Climate Actions today and beyond
Climate Strike Demands
What
is a strike? https://medium.com/nonviolenceny/understanding-the-methods-of-nonviolent-action-1ad595de3a71
News coverage of global strike
Film: Disobedience, on 2016
movement for direct action and nonviolent civil disobedience – climate justice,
tar sands oil exports
To what degree is nonviolent civil
disobedience an appropriate tactic for climate justice? How would you compare
it to historical examples?
From 350 PDX Here's what to expect today at the #PDXClimateStrike!
Rally - 10.30am - City Hall
March - 11.30am - 12.30pm @ City Hall, across Hawthorne Bridge, to Eastbank Esplanade near OMSI
Festival - 12:30pm - 5:00pm @ Next to OMSI by Tilikum Crossing Bridge
*All times are approximate and may shift slightly*
What are we fighting for? Youth demands to City of Portland:
- Establish a Climate Test. Every decision made by the city of Portland and its departments must take into account the health of the planet and choose what will most benefit the earth.
- We need a bolder, stronger Climate Emergency. Formally declare a climate emergency with meaningful youth and frontline community involvement.
- Fund YouthPass. Fund free TriMet passes to all high school students in Portland.
- Stop Zenith. Deny any and all permits for this disastrous tar sands oil terminal.
- Unless these demands are met, Stay home Mayor Wheeler! Don’t go to Copenhagen for the C40 Mayor Summit in October as a 'climate champion mayor' if these truly bold actions aren't taken.
Festival Details
12:30PM - 1:00PM: Speakers, Music
1:00PM - 4:00PM: Workshops, Art Builds, Action Stations, Food, Kids Area, 40+ organizations tabling
4:00PM - 5:00PM: Speakers, Music
Workshops, food trucks, kids area, live art, screen-printing, action stations, photo booth, postcards to future you, voter registration, wishing trees, 40+ orgs represented, tiny houses, solar charging station, climate strike t-shirts!
**OMSI is offering discounted entrance for youth with their student ID, and holding special climate demonstrations all day**
Workshops
Most are around 30-45 minutes and will be happening 1:00 - 5:00PM.
-- Climate Justice 101
-- Fossil Fuels in PDX Area & How to Stop Them
-- How To Crunch An Oil Terminal & Keep On Crunching
-- Transportation Justice: What Does it Look Like?
-- Workers & the Climate Crisis
-- Environmental Justice in the Philippines
-- Racial Justice is Climate Justice
-- Sunrise Movement Trainings
-- Resistance & Resilience Practices
-- From False Promises to Real Solutions
-- Anti-Oppression 101 & 102
-- Crash Course in Important Public Processes for Climate Activism
-- Learn the Tools of the System & Using Them To Win
-- And more
-- Fossil Fuels in PDX Area & How to Stop Them
-- How To Crunch An Oil Terminal & Keep On Crunching
-- Transportation Justice: What Does it Look Like?
-- Workers & the Climate Crisis
-- Environmental Justice in the Philippines
-- Racial Justice is Climate Justice
-- Sunrise Movement Trainings
-- Resistance & Resilience Practices
-- From False Promises to Real Solutions
-- Anti-Oppression 101 & 102
-- Crash Course in Important Public Processes for Climate Activism
-- Learn the Tools of the System & Using Them To Win
-- And more
Speakers / Music
- High School and Middle School youth leaders
- A panel on the situation in the Amazon rainforest by Brazilian Indigenous representatives
- Jo Ann Hardesty, Portland City Commissioner
- Alex Loznak, #JulianavUS Plaintiff
- Pacific Climate Warriors
- Alejandra Gallegos, OPAL #UpWithRiders campaign
- The Unpresidented Brass Band
- Occupella
- More to be announced!
Assignment Log
Log 2.1 Climate Justice Mixer
Log 2.2 Climate Crisis
Log 2.3 Climate Justice
Log 2.4 Carbon footprint
Log 2.5 Climate action reflection
Keep
graded and returned work in portfolio with last and first name and period # -
supporting details, tutor time
What are the problems with unconventional oil and
gas? Remedies?
Alberta tar sands, fracked Bakken shale, fracked gas- Production, transportation, export, use.
https://www.columbiariverkeeper.org/news/2019/9/washington-must-reject-massive-fossil-fuel-refinery?
Constitution supremacy clause, interstate
commerce and conflicts between federal and state govt. (see textbook p88-95)
Assignment Log
Log 2.1 Climate Justice Mixer
Log 2.2 Climate Crisis
Log 2.3 Climate Justice
Log 2.4 Carbon footprint
Log
2.5 Climate action reflection
Log 2.6 Unconventional oil and gas
Turn in logs 2.1-2.6. Keep log sheets.
Climate trial
research and prep- climate justice and solutions require understanding of
responsibility
Who is responsible?
Read
all Climate Trial
Roles US Govt, US Consumers, Developing countries, Fossil
Fuel Corps, Capitalism
1) debate- questions to and responses from each member of groups,
including 2 critical questions for each of the other groups with facts to argue
for that group’s responsibility and 3 responses to the most damning questions
other groups may ask about your responsibility – include detailed facts and avoid
redundant info.
2) defense statement and counter-prosecutions against
other groups
Graded
participation. You will also write a
trial verdict at the end, stepping out of your role.
System
change not climate change? https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/04/09/magazine/climate-change-capitalism.html
Analyzing countries
– current, cumulative and per capita
Role
play will be on Wed. You will have half the period on Mon to prepare.
Assignment Log
Log 2.1 Climate Justice Mixer
Log 2.2 Climate Crisis
Log 2.3 Climate Justice
Log 2.4 Carbon footprint
Log
2.5 Climate action reflection
Log
2.6 Unconventional oil and gas
Log 3.1 Trial prep
Turn in late logs 2.1-2.6. Keep log sheets.
UN
Climate Agreements – from Paris Accords to COP25: What progress has been made so far
with international agreements? What are the obstacles and limitations?
Costs of status quo
– subsidies to fossil fuels and govt costs of climate crisis
Climate trial prep
and research - read all Climate
Trial Roles to use in statements
and debate
US Govt, US Consumers,
Developing countries, Fossil Fuel Corps, Capitalism
1) debate- questions to and responses from each member of groups, including 2 critical questions for each of the other groups with facts to argue for that group’s responsibility and 3 responses to the most damning questions other groups may ask about your responsibility – include detailed facts and avoid redundant info.
1) debate- questions to and responses from each member of groups, including 2 critical questions for each of the other groups with facts to argue for that group’s responsibility and 3 responses to the most damning questions other groups may ask about your responsibility – include detailed facts and avoid redundant info.
2) defense statement and counter-prosecutions against
other groups
Graded
participation. You will also write a
trial verdict at the end, stepping out of your role.
Role
play will be on Wed.
See
me if you don’t have a role yet.
Assignment Log
Log 3.1 Trial prep
Log 3.2 UN Climate Agreements
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