Speaking on college strikes and minorities, the Deaf President Now protests of 1988 is a little known event that had HUGE impact for the disabled rights movements. Students at Gallaudet, one of the only universities specifically designed for the deaf/HoH, went on strike after the administration promoted yet another hearing president over a deaf candidate. The students demanded a deaf president and majority deaf board of directors to better reflect and represent deaf culture. The strike was monumental in the disabled rights movement and many of the students were involved in the Americans with Disabilities Act campaign a few years later
I was always led to believe Student Protests were an impediment but if you’re truly fed up and feel like expressing yourself, it will come out one way or another.
Understandable! And for those it doesn't "obviously" affect them, it can seem more so. But usually there were a lot of other actions that were taken to prevent the protests, and like union strikes, are the last ditch efforts since anything else didn't work. Unfortunately, most of the previous actions don't get reported on until it hits the strike/protest stage, so it will look like it was a trigger response.
This video is SO needed, since a lot of vocally loud online people don't seem to understand what the protests, the initiatives are meant to do. To uplift everyone and help with *everyone's* unconscious bias across a spectrum of issues, from class to culture to religion, etc. Pretty much everything that the students in the 60s & 70s fought for is still needed now. My parents remember the strike in SFSU and the ones that happened at City College too. They had friends who were very active in those. Thank you as always for a fantastic video!
Always amazing to me we look back at historical student protests and admire their work. But when we look at modern equivalents, we attack them, calling them naive and ignorant. Complete frustration at the inability to learn from history tbh. Also, I see y’all’s censorship in the comments, smdh.
@@nickc3657they are removing a certain kind of “free ____” movement but leaving the opposition comment up. An encapsulation of not learning from history.
It's unfortunate that fashion isn't the only thing that comes around again. One step forward, 2 steps back. As long as we keep talking and fighting, there's still hope for equality for all
well presented - as a student on the other coast, the Black and returning veterans cause many changes (most great) and enhanced our overall ability to learn and relate!
a needed video - reminds me of how now and days every moderate and white person wants to quote mlk but they wouldve or were the ones criticizing him, calling him dangerous and the activists rioters.....
Right on, Boomer Students! I was 13 years old then and later became politically & socially active. It was a good time for social change, and we are not done!
Part of the reason S. I. Hayakawa did not side with the students was that he was a Canadian and did not understand the colonial structures of American society. Unlike most of the most of the Japanese-American students he did not have the experience, personal or familial, of Japanese Internment.
But no comment on the zombie one? 🙄 From Cornell University: "The Beyoncé Nation course at Cornell, which has been requested regularly over the past several years, is finally back by popular demand! Beyoncé's trajectory from Houston, Texas as a member of the group Destiny's Child to international fame and superstardom and a successful career as a solo singer, actress, clothing designer and entrepreneur holds important implications for critical dialogues on the U.S. South and national femininity. One aspect of this course examines themes related to her intersectional identity as a model of black and Southern womanhood that have recurred in her song lyrics, performances and visual representations, which have also been foundational for her development of more recent productions, including "Formation" and the larger Lemonade album." Also usually studies on Zombies (which was a section of my Pop Culture Literacy Class), talks about xenophobia in the US and in other countries, and why zombies (and even vampires) became so popular early on in movies. It also deals with the working class and slave labors that happened even past abolition.
The socialist movement has a rich, diverse history going back to XIX century Europe different socialist movements, which expanded how citizens (especially local European Jewish minorities) can be considered equal and not be excluded from social, educationall infrastructure, intellectual life. In the US, during the Red Scare, hundreds and thousands of very differing Socialist Organizations, all inclusive to Jewish Americans, and all minorities and social classes, during the Red Scare in the 1959s thousands of intellectuals, activists, professionals, artists, musicians, a large proportion of Hollywood were all black-listed and unfairly stigmatized for being „Un-American”. This cultural witch-hunt caused many to commit suicide, especially Jewish migrants from Europe who had decades old ties to social activism. American socialist movements did amazing things for all Working Americans thanks to Worker’s Unions Workers Rights were historically established. Accussing the „Other” of „being a commie” is a historically rooted pop-culture trope based on America’s rich history of Conspiracy Theories.
Speaking on college strikes and minorities, the Deaf President Now protests of 1988 is a little known event that had HUGE impact for the disabled rights movements. Students at Gallaudet, one of the only universities specifically designed for the deaf/HoH, went on strike after the administration promoted yet another hearing president over a deaf candidate. The students demanded a deaf president and majority deaf board of directors to better reflect and represent deaf culture. The strike was monumental in the disabled rights movement and many of the students were involved in the Americans with Disabilities Act campaign a few years later
Wow! I had no idea, I definitely would watch a video about this.
I remember this well. If anyone has the time, please pull the 60 Minutes segment.
I was always led to believe Student Protests were an impediment but if you’re truly fed up and feel like expressing yourself, it will come out one way or another.
Understandable! And for those it doesn't "obviously" affect them, it can seem more so. But usually there were a lot of other actions that were taken to prevent the protests, and like union strikes, are the last ditch efforts since anything else didn't work. Unfortunately, most of the previous actions don't get reported on until it hits the strike/protest stage, so it will look like it was a trigger response.
This video is SO needed, since a lot of vocally loud online people don't seem to understand what the protests, the initiatives are meant to do. To uplift everyone and help with *everyone's* unconscious bias across a spectrum of issues, from class to culture to religion, etc. Pretty much everything that the students in the 60s & 70s fought for is still needed now.
My parents remember the strike in SFSU and the ones that happened at City College too. They had friends who were very active in those.
Thank you as always for a fantastic video!
Great to hear about successful student protests of the past alongside the current student protests for Gaza. ❤
I lived through that era.
one of the (many) lessons I learned was
do not buckle to an unreasonable and unreasoning authority.
Always question authority!
Always amazing to me we look back at historical student protests and admire their work. But when we look at modern equivalents, we attack them, calling them naive and ignorant. Complete frustration at the inability to learn from history tbh.
Also, I see y’all’s censorship in the comments, smdh.
Censorship?
@@nickc3657someone had a free P@lestine comment that got deleted. The not learning from history I alluded to.
@@nickc3657they are removing a certain kind of “free ____” movement but leaving the opposition comment up. An encapsulation of not learning from history.
We were called that back then.
@@Caterfree10 oh wow. I wonder if that’s policy?
It's unfortunate that fashion isn't the only thing that comes around again. One step forward, 2 steps back. As long as we keep talking and fighting, there's still hope for equality for all
well presented - as a student on the other coast, the Black and returning veterans cause many changes (most great) and enhanced our overall ability to learn and relate!
I love being able to learn more about this sort of stuff that went largely untaught in history classes!
a needed video - reminds me of how now and days every moderate and white person wants to quote mlk but they wouldve or were the ones criticizing him, calling him dangerous and the activists rioters.....
If you want to know whose on the right side of history, look towards the students
This is a great and important story, and I'm very appreciative for all the work that went into this video!
That's so interesting! Are there any connections or similarities to the students' protests in France, Brazil and other countries in 1968?
10:08 Creating a curriculum for students by students
Thank you. This is a great series.
So absolutely no mention of the Gaza protests?
Woow, it is good to know that the US was also part of the student strike worldwide in 1968
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Right on, Boomer Students! I was 13 years old then and later became politically & socially active. It was a good time for social change, and we are not done!
Sf State is the college of ethnic studies its no dept
And now in 2024 UC Berkeley is majority Asian and the only Black students play on the Football team?
A lot of methods used by BLM and more recently palestine protests and Extinction Rebellion methods were developed during the civil rights era
Part of the reason S. I. Hayakawa did not side with the students was that he was a Canadian and did not understand the colonial structures of American society. Unlike most of the most of the Japanese-American students he did not have the experience, personal or familial, of Japanese Internment.
@0:58 Taking classes on Beyoncé is not a great example of how this improved education.
But no comment on the zombie one? 🙄
From Cornell University: "The Beyoncé Nation course at Cornell, which has been requested regularly over the past several years, is finally back by popular demand! Beyoncé's trajectory from Houston, Texas as a member of the group Destiny's Child to international fame and superstardom and a successful career as a solo singer, actress, clothing designer and entrepreneur holds important implications for critical dialogues on the U.S. South and national femininity. One aspect of this course examines themes related to her intersectional identity as a model of black and Southern womanhood that have recurred in her song lyrics, performances and visual representations, which have also been foundational for her development of more recent productions, including "Formation" and the larger Lemonade album."
Also usually studies on Zombies (which was a section of my Pop Culture Literacy Class), talks about xenophobia in the US and in other countries, and why zombies (and even vampires) became so popular early on in movies. It also deals with the working class and slave labors that happened even past abolition.
It is. Universities should be teaching classes about modern topics and trends in all fields, not just sciences.
What is up with the commie star PBS?!
communism is when star.
The socialist movement has a rich, diverse history going back to XIX century Europe different socialist movements, which expanded how citizens (especially local European Jewish minorities) can be considered equal and not be excluded from social, educationall infrastructure, intellectual life.
In the US, during the Red Scare, hundreds and thousands of very differing Socialist Organizations, all inclusive to Jewish Americans, and all minorities and social classes, during the Red Scare in the 1959s thousands of intellectuals, activists, professionals, artists, musicians, a large proportion of Hollywood were all black-listed and unfairly stigmatized for being „Un-American”.
This cultural witch-hunt caused many to commit suicide, especially Jewish migrants from Europe who had decades old ties to social activism.
American socialist movements did amazing things for all Working Americans thanks to Worker’s Unions Workers Rights were historically established.
Accussing the „Other” of „being a commie” is a historically rooted pop-culture trope based on America’s rich history of Conspiracy Theories.
@@Sad_Bumper_Sticker Stalin and Mao said "Hi!"
@@Sad_Bumper_Sticker don't trouble yourself trying to explain...
this one does not wish to be reasoned with
Free Israel! ❤❤❤
From what? The Geneva conventions? 😭
@@dad7493 From terr0r attacks!
@@RandomNPC001 they're literally the ones that have been terrorizing civilians for 75 years literally grow tf up 💀
@@dad7493 ❤ this comment!!!🤗
From the responsibility of murdering innocent people and children