Blog Assignment #4

Noam Chomsky on Occupy Wall Street Protests

1.) View the video of MIT Professor Emeritus, "Noam Chomsky on Occupy Wall Street Protests," on our blog site (it takes less than five minutes). Use the following url: http://youtu.be/5wtHTh6NZXc 
or cut and paste the title (in quote marks above) into the search box on YouTube.com.

2.) After watching the video, search out another on-line source, in the New York Times, entitled, "Poet-Bashing Police," written by Robert Hass, former U.S. Poet Laureate. The essay, published on Nov. 19, 2011, discusses the officers who face off with students and the poet in Berkeley, at the very spot where the Free Speech Movement began.

Google this essay because the link has been discontinued. Use the title listed above.

3.) Google the language of the 'First Amendment.' Be prepared to cut and paste (and cite) this information.

Answer the Question: How do these protests fit in with class/race/gender inequities in the culture?  Use at least one quote from Chomsky's video, one from Hass's essay, and one quote from the language of The First Amendment (google this). 

4.) Write a 400-500 word summary/response in to our blog (file folder #8, lessons tab). Due: February 19th 2013, by 12:00 midnight, Pacific Standard Time. Offer a works cited portion at the bottom of your posting. Reminder: be sure to embed all quotes within a sentence. Respond to two (2) postings to get extra credit (300 words each). Choose a posting with fewer than two (2) responses.