Lois
Gibbs on becoming an environmental activist
Recommended:
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El
Plan de Aztlan By the mid-1960s,
there was a growing sense of Chicano self-identity. Political movements were not far behind.
The First Chicano National Conference, held in Denver in 1969, produced
"El Plan de Aztlan, a call for
political action and race pride
·
Sex and the Chicana On the first Chicana conference
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Cesar Chavez and the
Farm Workers Movement
·
United Farm Workers Home Page
(ongoing issues covered here, including the freedom ride of farmworkers that is
going on now)
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Watts and Little Big
Horn On the growing
consciousness among Native Americans of the need for struggle for rights,
modeled on the black power movement
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Trail
Of Broken Treaties 20-Point Position Paper
The American Indian Movement developed this paper to draw attention to
their cause, an account of the relationship between American Indians and the
U.S.
· American Indian Movement –site of the
current movement, with many links
· FBI Files on the American
Indian Movement—there are 1000s of documents here
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Gay
Power Comes to Sheridan Square On
the Stonewall “riot”
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Gay
History from Stonewall to present perspectives
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Feminism,
New Ecology -- Excerpt from Edmund Morgan, The Sixties; this is a
reading from another course, it is terrific analysis of how feminism, ecology
grew out of 1960s movements and the idea of the limits to capitalist growth.
Very provocative reading
·
Barry
Commoner –one of the founders of the modern ecology movement, explains The
Four Laws of Ecology, from The Closing Circle excerpt