Restriction: By department permission. Students should submit one paragraph describing their interest in the course to the instructor.

This course is intended as a gathering place and thought laboratory for people passionate about activism, community organizing, grassroots movement-building, social transformation, and struggles for liberation. We will read movement manifestoes, theories and histories of revolutionary struggles, mission statements of social justice organizations, and (auto)biographies of leaders. We will also watch and listen to footage of protests, documentary films depicting liberation struggles, and protest music scoring such struggles. The curriculum spans Abolitionism, Civil Rights, Second-Wave Feminism, Black Power, Indigenous Sovereignty, Gay Liberation, Anti-Colonialism, Third World Liberation, Reproductive Justice, Environmental Justice, Anti-Apartheid, Labor Rights, Occupy, Arab Spring, Black Lives Matter, Palestinian Solidarity, and other movements-emphasizing the roles of young people and students. Throughout, we will chart the histories of these movements; theorize their characteristics; assess their strengths and shortcomings; and hone our own strategies for collective resistance and liberation.