Bibliographic Details
| Title: |
Necessary Trouble. |
| Authors: |
WOLFE-ROCCA, URSULA (AUTHOR) ursulawolfe@rethinkingschools.org |
| Source: |
Rethinking Schools. Spring2021, Vol. 35 Issue 3, p56-60. 5p. 1 Color Photograph. |
| Subject Terms: |
*Government policy, *Civil disobedience, *COVID-19 pandemic, Oil sands |
| Abstract: |
Valve Turners are activists who shut down pipelines. The activists who break laws to stop catastrophic climate change? I designed the activity to build anticipation for my students' viewing of the film; the roles explore the motivations and actions of each of the activists, but do not reveal the outcomes of the trials or whether any of the defendants succeed in their mobilization of the necessity defense. Teaching in an overwhelmingly white suburb of Portland, I thought my students would be excited by the film's attention to the role of "white allies" in an Indigenous-led movement, as well as by the examples of 21st-century civil disobedience, which is too often portrayed as a relic of the past, evident in the sepia-toned photos of the sit-ins and Freedom Rides, but not applicable in our own time. [Extracted from the article] |
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| Database: |
Education Research Complete |
