Assignments for Week of May 12-16

Mon, May 12       SLAM     Final draft due

                             RCG       Answer questions about A Force More Powerful, Part 5. Answer these
                                              questions:

 1    Why did the workers in Poland go on strike?

2     What are the workers’ demands?

3      Some activists called for expanding the list of demands to include free elections and an end to censorship. What might have happened if these demands had been added?

4      Industrial workers have played key roles in several stories presented in this series.  Why have workers and their unions been such effective vehicles for nonviolent action? What leverage do workers possess that ordinary citizens don’t?

Tues, May 13        SLAM      All class poetry slam

Wed, May 14        RCG        Action Project Presentations

Thurs, May 15      RCG       News Bowl          

Fri, May 16          EVALS      Self-evaluations due.