Part 1

“We are capable of bearing a great burden, once we discover that the burden is reality and arrive where reality is.” – James Baldwin

“You can’t lead the people if you don’t love the people. You can’t save the people if you don’t serve the people .” – Cornel West

“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress .” – Frederick Douglass

“If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning.”
– Frederick Douglass

“Freedom ain’t Free homie….don’t just talk about it it be about it” – Mos Def

This final class discussion is about social change and how it happens. I argue that unless we ALL become involved, we will never see the change we need. Leadership and a top down approach will never work. Any sustainable change must come from and be sustained by the people that DEMAND it.

Please answer the following questions:

1. What do you want to see changed:
– Locally?
– Nationally?
– Globally

2. What SPECIFICALLY are you doing NOW to advance these social changes? List at least 2 specific actions.

3. What SPECIFICALLY can you do NOW (that you are not currently doing) to advance these social changes? List at least 2 specific actions.

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LENGTH: Your posted reaction should be at least 8 sentences in length.

Part 2

explain your positive and/or negative experiences at LASC and what you believe it will take to Create the Best Southwest

Part 3

What have you learned to date (from class material)?
iii. Discuss activities completed for Applied learning portfolio and what you learned.(my applied portfolio was about the homeless crisis in California)