Notes for Essay

1. Placing subjugated lives and voices at the moral center

• voices being heard
• people not being left out
• everyone counts
• everyone deserves a fair chance at life
• Hear peoples stories but also engage in them

2. Unraveling social ideologies

*Pedgogy of freedom*

• “The invention of “existence” neccessarily involves the emergenc of language, culture, and communication at levels of complexity much greater than that which obtains at the level of survival, self-defense, and self preservation” (53).
• “I like to be human because in my unfinishedness I know that I am conditioned. Yet conscious of such conditioning. I know that I can go beyond it, which is the essential difference between conditioned and determined existence” (54).

3. Examining power, privilege, and social domination

• talk about census interview done
• share experiences from the classroom
• put more emphasis on the 2020 census and reasoning behind it

4. Identifying victimization and agency

• not everyone has the same resources
• canal alliance offers many and new opportunities for people
• people are living in fear

5. Creating a Social Movement

• Becoming more vocal
• Being a voice for the voiceless
• educate people on census
• educating people in general
• creating a safe place

Extra

• Share experiences within classrooms
• Share conversations from class intructor
• Talk about class environment and exercises done
• Steps that can be taken in creating a more positive community
• Think about working with other service learning students and comparing classroom information/notes