history
What is one historical event in black history in the U.S. which illustrated the effectiveness of economic activism?
Rosa Parks bus boycotts
What is economic activism?
Being an activist through an economic perspective to destroy capitalist impediments on social mobility for yourself, the people around you, and the people exploited for your comfort.
Who has the most privilege in a capitalist society?
The ones who have the most generational wealth within that society.
Who is financially oppressed in the U.S. today?
POC, Natives, and immigrants.
education, healthcare, job opportunities, neglected neighborhoods, environmental racism, racist architecture.., etc.,
What happened to / who is rosa parks?
Surface level, Rosa Parks sat on a segregated bus where she refused to move because she was tired of racism and is a human. She was a black woman who was an important figure in African american history, a symbol of defiance and resistance against "Amerikkka".
What do you boycott?
(Student answer.)
Why do boycotts seemingly fail to stop corporations from exploiting people?
A majority of people are misinformed about how to protest and the privileged class continues to perpetuate the wants of corporations and monopolies by continually increasing the wealth of the oppressive class.
Why are certain demographics of people economically oppressed?
To prevent social mobility of POC, Native, and immigrant people.
name two economic oppressors.
Government, corporations, lawmakers, monopolies, union busters, lobbies against public interest (free transportation, shelters, food, services), institutional racism and exploitative practices through the education system.
How effective was Rosa parks in the fight against heavily institutional racism?
Extremely effective, her experiences led to human rights, workers rights, and showed the effectiveness of economic activism.
What is the best place to boycott?
Corporations.
Are the privileged willfully ignorant or is their ignorance orchestrated? Where do you fall?
This is a question that needs a lot of nuance, both things can be true at once, now that you're acquainted with economic activism... where do you fall?
What are ways the economically oppressed class can fight back against oppression?
Community building/events, community development, communal sharing of resources, boycotting certain businesses until they meet demands, unionizing, staying informed on boycotts.
In a capitalist society where people hold almost no power because they lack money and resources, how can they get their feelings across?
Boycotts.
What year did Rosa parks get kicked off the bus?
December 1st 1955.
What are you struggling to boycott and why?
(student answer.)
name two privileges that facilitate economic oppression?
Generational wealth, willful ignorance, blissful ignorance, (in the U.S. Skin color plays a historical factor), denial of systemic oppression.
What targets should economically oppressed people target for abolition or reform?
Corporations, monopolies, governments
What is the most effective version of protest the average person can do when they are upset with a company?
Boycott.
What city did rosa parks refuse to move from her seat on a bus?
Montgomery, Alabama
If economic activism individually is like a drop of water in the ocean, what is the ocean made of? Do you want the boat of billionaires to live freely on a calm body of water or live in chaos until they meet your demands?
learning about economic activism. Is it a curse or a blessing? Did this lesson shift your morals? Name one thing you will boycott starting today-not yesterday?
Nuance. name one thing you will boycott.
What are systemic ways that oppression is kept hidden by the oppressors?
How has the government and corporations turned protest into a privilege and difficulty for the average person?
This capitalist society only recognizes money, it used money to create isolated environments where the poor and exploited risk financial suicide if they protest their work's practices, protest the necessities they need, and or protest the economic superpower of their community. Therefore the most effective strategy of all time would be violent protest by the majority over the oppressive minority.