Release date: Dec. 14, 2004
Contact: Elaine Justice at 404-727-0643 or elaine.justice@emory.edu

Course Shows Students How Concern Leads to Action

Anthropology professor Valerie Singer wants her Oxford College students to think about activism and what moves a person from concern to action. She took her class to observe a recent protest at the U.S. Army's Fort Benning, home to the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation. Formerly named the School of the Americas, critics trying to close the school cite a list of notorious alumni that includes Latin American dictators, among them former Panama Gen. Manuel Noriega.

"I want [students] to think about the process of activism. Social movements--even if they are not necessarily organized movements--have had a huge impact on history in many ways, and those ways often get erased or forgotten by history."

For more, go to: http://www.emory.edu/EMORY_REPORT/erarchive/2004/November/er%20november%2029/sandractivism.htm.

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