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Oppression means cruel or unjust treatment that is prolonged. The difference between the violent resistance and non-violent resistance is that in violent resistance you use the threat of physical pain to the oppressors and non-violent resistance is when you use peaceful means where no one is harmed and the oppressors are shamed into changing. Agency means the ability to determine the outcome of one’s own life. Oppressed people should use non-violent resistance to gain agency because during the Oscar Grant protest they were threatened for their life if they were peaceful, in the MLK speech he states that non-violent resistance gives tangible and better results, and in Malala’s speech she supports being peaceful and forgiving to everybody.

First of all, oppressed people should use non-violent resistance to gain agency because during the Oscar Grant protest police threatened protesters for their life if they did not protest peacefully. The document that I will be providing you is about the Murder of Oscar Grant at the Fruitvale Bart Station in Oakland, California who was shot in the back when he was already in a position of surrendering. This document is an excerpt from an article titled Centuries of rage: The murder of Oscar Grant III” on the website http://sfbayview.com/2015/02/centuries-of-rage-the-murder-of-oscar-grant-iii/  and was written by Malaika Kambon on February 25, 2015. The information from this document is not trustworthy because they don’t have any evidence of them witnessing the event and that they have a reason to give biased information due to the fact this protest for some eyes, see it as a racial problem which would lead into different opinions and biased information. A quote from this document states, “…Mehserle’s partner, Tony Pirone, held Grant down with both hands and a knee on his head and neck.Both Pirone and BART Officer Marysol Domenici assaulted, hurled racial epithets and threatened to taser and/or kill Oscar Grant’s five friends who were on the BART platform with him at the time of his murder.” The evidence that I have provided shows that oppressed people should use non-violent resistance to gain agency because if Oscar Grant’s five friends that was there to witness his murder were to retaliate violent it would result in them getting injured or even worse death. This supports my claim in using non-violent resistance to gain agency because it is a much safer way in protesting than losing you life or getting injured in the process.

In addition, oppressed people should use non-violent resistance to gain agency because being peaceful and forgiving to everybody will give you better results than harming others using violent resistance. The document that I will be using is about a how a girl name Malala Yousafzai was shot in the head by Taliban but it won’t stop her because she feels even stronger after getting shot and she wants education for every child by being peaceful and loving everyone, even the Taliban who shot her. The document is an excerpt of a speech given by 16 year old named Malala Yousafzai to the United Nations General Assembly on July 12, 2013. The information of this article is reliable because Malala Yousafzai said this herself to the United Nations General Assembly and has no reason to be bias. A quote from this speech states, “This is the philosophy of nonviolence that I have learned from Gandhi, Bacha Khan and Mother Teresa. And this is the forgiveness that I have learned from my father and from my mother. This is what my soul is telling me: be peaceful and love everyone.” This demonstrates that oppressed people should use non-violent resistance to gain agency because Malala Yousafzai is following the philosophy of nonviolence which the 3 role models that she mentioned were very successful in doing. This is why oppressed people should use nonviolent resistance to gain agency because you have a much better chance of gaining agency instead of fighting back which will make the oppressors less likely to hear your opinion and what you have to say.

Lastly, oppressed people should use non-violent resistance to gain agency because Dr. Martin Luther King stated himself that using nonviolent resistance will give you tangible results than using violent resistance which does not give consistent results like using non-violent resistance can do. The document that I will use to support my claim is about Dr. Martin Luther King doing a speech and talking about his opinion on a violent resistance that was occuring at the time and that he is committed in using non-violent resistance because it’s the best weapon in getting best results. This document is an excerpt from a speech titled “The Other America” delivered by Dr. Martin Luther King at Grosse Pointe High School on March 14th, 1968. The information from this document is reliable because Dr. Martin Luther King is a primary source, has no reason to be bias, and he has stated this himself. The quote from this document states, “I am still committed to militant, powerful, massive, non-violence as the most potent weapon in grappling with the problem from a direct action point of view. I’m absolutely convinced that a riot merely intensifies the fears of the white community while relieving the guilt. And I feel that we must always work with an effective, powerful weapon and method that brings about tangible results.” This implies that oppressed people should use non-violent resistance to gain agency because using non-violent resistance is better in giving your point across to the oppressors rather than making them scared. The results from using non-violent resistance to gain agency is better than using violent resistance because you gain more consistent results than violent resistance instead of scaring the oppressors to death.

 

• What are the different statuses on the posters, and what do each of them mean?

The different statuses on the posters are open, acknowledged, and closed. Open means that they are looking into it. Acknowledged means that seen the problem and has sent an email to the city of Oakland about the problem. Closed means that they are no longing looking into this problem anymore.

• Describe what you did (or what you were supposed to do) to find out if the issue you submitted to SeeClickFix was fixed.

 

 

• What changes do you notice from the April 13th posters to the April 27th posters?

 

Changes that I noticed from the April 13th poster to the April 27 poster is that a little more than half of the people that were on the open poster in April 13th has switched over to the acknowledged or closed poster since April 27th.

• Do you think there are any types of issues SeeClickFix is better at getting fixed than others?  Why do you think that?

Yes I think there are types of issues SeeClickFix is better at getting fixed than others which are illegal trash dumping because if you look at the closed poster, majority of the the issues on there are illegal trash dumping.

• If an issue someone reported did not get fixed, what is something they might try next? 
• If an issue someone reported did not get fixed something they might try next is report the same issue again to see if they fix it this time or they might even just report another issue that they want to be fixed.

 

• Do you think people who report issues to SeeClickFix are able to gain agency?  Explain your answer.

I think people who report issues to SeeClickFix are able to gain agency because they are slowly being to take control of their life by starting in the issues they reported and see need to be changed.

 

• Describe how the 9th grade students are tracking the progress of the issue we reported using sticky notes and posters.  What do each posters mean?

The 9th grade students are tracking the progress of the issue we reported using sticky notes and posters by using 3 posters for 3 different stages. The 3 stages are open, acknowledged and closed. We move are sticky notes around based on if the problem has been fixed or not.

• What did you learn about the status of the issue you reported to SeeClickFix? Did it change (If so, how)?  Did your issue’s status stay the same? Explain your answer.

What I learned about the status of my issue that I reported to SeeClickFix is that it has changed status. No the issue of my status did not stay the same. The issue that I reported changed from open to acknowledged.

Describe the response you got about the issue you reported.  What was the message you received? Who sent you that message?

The message that I received from SeeClickFix is that the City of Oakland Call Center has received the issue and is now acknowledged.

• Did any patterns emerge on the poster about which issues are resolved, and which are not?  Explain your answer.

 

Yes patterns emerged on the poster about which issues are resolved because some people have got up and changed the position of where the sticky note should be.

• Is the SeeClickFix project an example of Violent or Non-Violent resistance to oppression?  Explain your answer. 

The SeeClickFix project is an example of Non-Violent resistance to oppression because they are not harming anyone in the process. They are doing this all peacefully using media.

 

Do you think SeeClickFix can help to solve problems in Oakland?  Explain why or why not.

 

Yes because SeeClickFix can help report the issues that we can’t get to the City of Oakland for us.

• In your own words describe what the company called SEECLICKFIX does for people living in Oakland.

The things that the company SeeClickFix does for people living in Oakland is that they send emails or messages to the people in Oakland that are able to fix the problems that we report and keeps spamming them until they fix the problem.

• Do you think SEECLICKFIX helps people in Oakland to resist oppression?  Explain why, or why not.

Yes, I think SeeClickFix helps people in Oakland to resist oppression  because these problems have been happening for a long period of time and they can help us fix it.

• Explain the story of how you took your picture for the SEECLICKFIX project (Describe what you took a picture of, when you took it, where you were, how, and why).

When my sister and I were driving home at night on 1429 Bancroft Way Oakland, California we saw illegal dumping on the left side of the road. Since I needed the picture for a project I took the picture of trash, cardboard boxes and etc.

• What did you do in class to join SEECLICKFIX on their website?  Describe the steps you took.

What I did in class to join SeeClickFix on their website is that i had to confirm as a citizen, type in my first name, type in my school email address, student ID number for password, confirm my location at Fremont High School, say I am not a robot and click sign up. Finally I had to go to my email address and confirm my email address sent by SeeClickFix.

• What did you do in class to report an issue to SEECLICKFIX? DON’T FORGET TO SHARE YOUR ISSUE ID NUMBER!  Describe the steps you took.

What I did in class to report an issue to SeeClickFix is first type in the address of the issue, click on the category of the issue, described the issue, and then upload the image of the issue I took. My Issue ID number is 4281517.

• Do you predict that the City of Oakland will fix the problem you reported?  Explain why, or why not.

No because there is actually homeless living right next to the illegal dumping so it is possible that they might not fix it because of that.

Oppressed people means people that have been dealing with cruel and unjust treatment that is prolonged. Systems of oppression mean systems that are meant to oppress people or something. Levels of oppression means oppression that goes even deeper than system but because of laws,rules,policies, how people behaved toward another and when people choose to believe negative narratives about themselves. Some ways oppressed people experience the different systems of oppression and levels of oppression are that everyday an Afghan girl faces being thrown acid at their face or people poisoning their water and that people are still being treated poorly from others because of laws that were made in the past but even now people are treating others poorly by killing them because of laws that were made in the past which they still believe in.

First of all, some ways oppressed people experience the different systems of oppression and levels of oppression are that everyday an Afghan girl faces being thrown acid at their face or people poisoning their water when they are trying to get an education because men don’t want them to learn about their rights and be able to control them which would be considered a social system of oppression or interpersonal level of oppression. In a document written online it talks about how women and girls are being thrown acid at their faces and terrorist also poisoning their water just to stop the girls from getting a free education so they don’t learn their rights as a human being and a woman.This document was an articled titled “Acid attacks, poison: What Afghan girls risk by going to school” which was posted on the website CNN.com and it was written by Allie Torgan on March 17, 2016. In this document it says, “Terrorists will stop at nothing to keep Afghan girls from receiving an education …”Every day, you hear that somebody’s thrown acid at a girl’s face … or they poison their water. “It is heartbreaking to see the way these terrorists treat … women,” said Jan, 68. “In their eyes, a women is an object that they can control. They are scared that when these girls get an education, they will become aware of their rights as women and as a human being.”” This evidence shows that the girls and woman who are the “oppressed people” are experiencing a social system of oppression and an interpersonal level of oppression because of how the terrorist are behaving toward the girls by treating them inhumanely so that they won’t know their rights as humans and that the men and terrorist will have power over them. They are treating them inhumanely because terrorist poisoning and grenading girls who are just minding their own business and trying to get an education is just sad and cruel. All they wanted was a education which everyone in the world should be offered to have but these terrorist are killing these innocent girls just because they want an education.

Last of all, some ways oppressed people experience the different systems of oppression and levels of oppression are that people are still being treated inhumanely from others because of laws that were made in the past but even now people are treating others poorly by killing them which could be considered a social system of oppression and a institutional level of oppression. In a document it talks about how a white woman later admitted in killing a young black boy for reasons that she says were later found false, which was that Emmett Till grabbed her and was sexually harassing her, and she was also  never retried as long with other suspects and not found guilty of the crime she committed. This document was a quote from an article on the New York Times Newspaper’s Website which was titled “Woman Linked to 1955 Emmett Till Murder Tells Historian Her Claims Were False” and it was written by Richard Perez-Peña on January 27, 2017. In this quote it says, “But all these years later, a historian says that the woman has broken her silence, and acknowledged that the most incendiary parts of the story she and others told about Emmett — claims that seem tame today but were more than enough to get a black person killed in Jim Crow-era Mississippi — were false.The woman, Carolyn Bryant Donham, spoke to Timothy B. Tyson… who has written a book, “The Blood of Emmett Till,” to be published next week. In it, he wrote that she said of her long-ago allegations that Emmett grabbed her and was menacing and sexually crude toward her, “that part is not true.”” This evidence shows a social system of oppression and institutional level of oppression because it talks about how Carolyn Bryant Donham who later admitted to the murder of Emmett Till behaved toward Emmett Till yet was not found guilty at all because they could not be retried and that she acted this way because she thought that based on rules from the past she could of done this without getting punished.

Occupy Oakland was a movement where protesters protested because of corporatism and allegations of police misconduct. This took place at Frank H. Ogawa Plaza in Oakland, California during October 2011. At Frank H. Ogawa Plaza protesters made a camp but was later disbanded by police during the same month the campaign started.This story shows a political system of oppression. This story shows a political system of oppression because during the protest the police made the decision to disband the protest with force if needed and to make the protesters follow the rules and law to stop protesting.This story took place at Frank H. Ogawa Plaza in Oakland, California during October 2011.

Oscar Grant was a 22 year old African American male who was shot in the Fruitvale Bart Station by Bart Police officer Johannes Mehserle. When Oscar Grant was on his way home from a Bart train returning from San Francisco he was detained by Bart police due to reports of a fight. He was forced to the ground by Johannes Mehserle and soon after shot in the back. He soon died at Highland Hospital later after treatment was provided. Now Johannes Mehserle is faced with charges or murder even though he tried to flee from California.This story shows an interpersonal level of oppression because this story talks about how Bart police officer Johannes Mehserle behaved toward Oscar Grant in response to reports of a fight in the area.This story took place on New Year’s day in 2009 at the Fruitvale Bart Station in Oakland, California.

During the year of 1830 to 1850 the Indian tribes of Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, Seminole, and the famous Cherokee people were being forcefully removed from their homes in the Southeastern United States to areas west of the Mississippi River. The journey and path that the Indian Tribes took during their relocation by force from the white settlers was later called “The Trail of Tears” by the Cherokee people. During their relocation from Southeastern United States to west of the Mississippi River many people died along the way from exposure, starvation and disease. This all happened due to the Indian Removal Act that started in May 28, 1830.This is an category of political oppression. This is an example of political oppression because this story all happened due to the Indian Removal act which was signed and created by President Andrew Jackson. This story talks about how a decision was made and who has the authority to make them which was President Andrew Jackson.This story happened between Southeastern United States to areas West of the Mississippi River. This story took place between the year of 1830 to 1850.

Power means the ability to control events and the behaviors of other people. Marginalize means to put off to the side , or make less important. Exploit means to take unfair advantage of someone for your own benefit. People with power are able to marginalize and exploit people with different identities because they are able to colonize the other people, they can punish them whenever the find suitable and they can treat someone with a different identity luxuriously and later dismember them in public view.

First of all, people with power are able to marginalize and exploit people with different identities because the people with power are able to colonize people with different identities. In document 3 that I will be using and presenting a quote from shortly is about the Spanish exploiting the Native Americans labor after colonizing there territory. The document is a quote from the book titled “Colonial America” and was written by Jerome R. Reich in 1994. In document 3 it states, “Once the conquest of the Native Americans had been completed the next task was to exploit their labor.” As you can see after the Spanish have finished their conquest on the Native Americans their next task was to exploit their labor. This supports my claim because the Spanish who has power over the Native Americans are now trying to marginalize and exploit them by exploiting their labor after colonizing them.

 

Furthermore, people with power are able to marginalize and exploit people with different identities because when suitable they can punish those with different identities by any means necessary. According to a document, it talks about these 4 different articles(rules) that were created to enforce power on black slaves in French territory in America. Document 4 is articles from sections of “The Code Noir” ,which were basically laws made for black slaves and was written by the King of France in March, 1685. In article 42 of “The Code Noir” it states, “The masters will have the right, when they’ll estimate it’s necessary, to chain up the slaves and make beat them by sticks and ropes.” This evidence demonstrates that people with power are able to marginalize and exploit people with different identities because they can do whatever they want to black slaves for their own benefit, such as make them work until they die without a break and punish them whenever they find necessary.

 

Last of all, people with power are able to marginalize and exploit people with different identities because the people with power are exploiting an enemy warrior by treating him luxuriously and then dismembering him and killing him. In document 4, it talks about the story of an enemy warrior being treated luxuriously like the god, Tezcatlipoca, and then sacrificing him in a year. The document is from the words of an unknown Aztec Scribe in 1529. In document 4 is states, “This seasoned warrior, whom we change from a human into the god Tezcatlipoca, can have no blemish upon his body, and is treated like our most royal family member during the long year leading up to his sacrifice.” This shows that someone with power are able to marginalize and exploit people with different identities because Aztec people have the power to turn an enemy warrior into the god “Tezcatlipoca” and later exploit him by dismembering him in the public for all to see. To elaborate this shows a political system of oppression because the Aztecs made the decision to treat the enemy warrior like a god and later sacrifice him.