Final Review

1. The Marijuana Tax ACT-1937 US officials pledged tight legislative controls restricting the distribution of opiates to authorized medical prescription…Propaganda help this in a popular magazine called “American Magazine”

2. Power reflective affirmations- 1. Affirm counter hegemonic forms of community: communities that challenge social change, community structures may support in future struggles. 2. Affirm popular and unpopular cultural subversions: they provoke intellectual and emotional reactions against hierarchical power-denying funding. 3. Affirm theoretically informed activism: boycotts, strikes, civil disobedience, radical education projects, political pranks used by activist groups 4. Affirm the construction of alternative social institution: efforts to implement new economic, political, educational, spiritual and sexual relations with one another

3. Strategic refusals- 1. Refuse the legitimacy efforts to secure “public safety” unless such efforts simultaneously aim at the realization of social and economic justice: tougher policing and more prisons must be resisted 2. Refuse all uses of sexist, racist, homophobic, xenophobic (intolerant, racist), and other culturally degrading languages-including visual languages, signs, gestures, and icons: State authorized censorship-speech that subordinates the dignity of others. 3. Refuse to do business with businesses that support social injustice: economic inequality, companies that discriminate by virtue of race, gender, age and sexual preference. 4. Refuse ignorance of history and of other people’s cultures: ignorance in our own histories and cultures. 5. Refuse the commonsensical character of all authority: questioning authority

4. Power is portrayed- 1. The ability to make things happen. 2. Power enables and constrains us 3. It opens doors to experience 4. Rollo May- Psychologist believed that to experience power is to experience “Being” 5. Relationship between power in correlation with...