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Video:

Violence Against Women Social Movement
Description: CNN interview with renowned activist and Feminist writer, Eve Ensler, about "One Billion Rising," an emerging social international movement to combat violence and atrocities committed against women. She also discusses the history of violence against women across global settings, and the efforts that the new campaigns sponsor to support women leaders.
Learning Objective: 18-2

Social Change and Non-violence
Description: TED talk addressing the use of peaceful protest to fight extreme force without using force in return, providing historically exemplary leaders of this form of social movement
Learning Objective: 18-1

$15 Minimum Wage in US
Description: Prominent economist and policy leader contextualizes the social movement of the Fight for $15. He dispels common arguments against raising the minimum wage and presents evidence of the economic and social benefits of giving full-time employees in the US a working wage.
Learning Objective: 18-3

Audio:

Fast Food Workers Strike for Living Wage
Description: NPR Morning Edition story about the Fight for $15 by fast food workers, and presents arguments from protestors for a living wage, as well as corporate supporters explication that higher wages would result in job losses, more selective hiring practices, and increased automation in food production to offset more expensive workers.
Learning Objective: 18-3

50 Years before Ferguson, MO
Description: NPR news story reflection on the last 50 years of civil protests and riots spurred by racial discrimination and brutality experienced in African American communities, with accompanying articles and documentary photographs.
Learning Objective: 18-2

Web:

Prominent Social Movements
Description: An encylopedic article describing recent social movements and the key sociological concepts to contextual the impact of these major milestones in social history.
Learning Objective: 18-3

Social Movement Leadership as an Alternative to Bureaucracy?
Description: This Contexts article discusses a novel approach of using decision-making usually found in social movements and leadership dynamics as a template for improving the running of national level government. The author provides examples of recent successful grassroots social movements as contexts for testing out this possibility.
Learning Objective: 18-1