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By Any Media Necessary: Mapping Youth and Participatory Politics

Undocumented Youth vs. Border Patrol Round 1 - Mobile, Alabama

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2. 19th Century Reforms: Crash Course US History #15
3. #BYP100 Responds to George Zimmerman Verdict
4. MOVE: Invisible Children's new film from the creators of KONY 2012
6. How To Change the World
8. To All My DREAMheads
9. 2013 Fourth Estate Summit (Invisible Children)
24. Orphans vs. Empires: Andrew Slack at TEDxYouth@SanDiego
25. Accio Books: LeakyCon Edition
29. Books on FIRE
32. InterOccupy, Occupy Sandy Meeting 11-18-12 (raw footage)
33. UndocuQueer Manifesto
35. Coming out of the Shadows - Dream Activist Philadelphia
37. Why I Can't Go to LeakyCon
38. Part 1 DC DREAM Act National Graduation
40. UndocuQueer Manifesto
45. Get Lit: WHAT IS A BLITZ?
46. Social justice through parody NWP Albert is an Economics teacher at Locke High School in the Watts area of South LA and member of the UCLA Writing Project, shown here describing a lesson plan he created for students to engage with social issues through parody and activism by using some of the media examples he found on the By Any Media Necessary web resource. He talks about moving beyond concepts of supply and demand by infusing his economics classes with social justice themes that students are receptive to, and talks about how part of his course asks students to think about the implications of globalization on poverty. He explains his process of looking through media examples on the site that discuss social issues through parody, draws inspiration from a DREAMer video that speaks to healthcare for millions of undocumented immigrants, and talks about using these kinds of videos as a springboard to bring to light these and other social issues. Connecting it to his lesson plan, he will have students create a parody around a social issue they choose, helping them to think about what they can do with the current situation, spaces, and resources they have.
50. Rebel Music: Native America | Frank Waln Performs "My Stone"
60. Liberty in North Korea: Rescue Campaign
62. THIS IS A MOVEMENT
65. Why We Rise
69. "Brown VS. Board of Education" by Brandon Santiago (Raise Up Project)
70. #AfterTheHashTag - Race on College Campuses
71. Get Lit Promo PBS Video
72. Bringing the Noise '15 - Caitlyn
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74. Teaching Teachers NWP Nicole Mirra, teacher educator, scholar, and member of the UCLA Writing Project, talks about encouraging pre-service teachers to incorporate the teaching of civic and media literacy skills in their classrooms. Using examples from the BAM resource and through sharing her lesson planning and scaffolding documents and processes, she demonstrates how she incorporates these themes in her own teaching. She also makes the case for the value of this kind of work and connects these practices to common core state and national standards.
75. Get Lit: WHAT IS THE CLASSIC SLAM?
76. Rebel Music: Native America | Nataanii Means Performs "Genocide"
77. Bringing the Noise '14: José Vadi
78. Rachel Rostad - "Names" (NPS 2013)
79. Get Lit Promo 2013 Video
80. Rebel Music: Native America | Official Trailer
81. "THE CORNER" - Jose Vadi {The Bigger Picture Project} "How far do we have to slip before we end this edible misery and rewrite our recipe?"In THE CORNER, directed by Jamie DeWolf, José Vadi speaks about how local communities have greater accessibility to fast food restaurants and corner stores, which increases their risk of Type 2 Diabetes. Youth Speaks and UCSF Center for Vulnerable Populations are leading the campaign against Type 2 Diabetes with our new project, The Bigger Picture. Raise your voice TODAY!http://www.TheBiggerPicture.org http://www.twitter.com/BigPicCampaign
84. Raise Up - Get Lit Players Raise Up - by Get Lit Players. Youth Speaks, in collaboration with the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Millennium Stage, present an evening to celebrate the winners of the national spoken word competition designed to foster discussion among young people and adults about the challenges and opportunities students face as they strive to stay on the path to graduation. Hosted by D.C. hip-hop artist Gabriel “Asheru” Benn, the program will feature performances from each of the five winners, plus an appearance by DJ Questlove and Black Thought, NPR’s Glynn Washington, and Hill Harper. The RAISE Up project is part of American Graduate - Let's Make It Happen! - a public media initiative to address the drop out crisis, supported by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
85. Frank Waln - AbOriginal
86. "By Any Sweets Necessary" by Luke Tailor {The Bigger Picture} Sacramento-based MC Luke Tailor’s addictive diet follows him everywhere he goes - in school, at the park, even the emergency room - but what Luke doesn’t know is how such an unhealthy high-sugar diet can lead to serious chronic illnesses like type 2 diabetes. Watch Luke’s diet catch up to him in this new music video for the Bigger Picture, “By Any Sweets Necessary.” Directed by Jamie DeWolf and edited by Kevin Holmes.Download Luke Tailor’s music here:http://Luketailor.bandcamp.comhttp://www.soundcloud.com/Luke-TailorThe Bigger Picture is a collaboration between Youth Speaks and UCSF’s Center for Vulnerable Populations. Follow us:http://www.twitter.com/BigPicCampaignhttp://www.instagram.com/BigPicCampaignhttp://www.thebiggerpicture.org
87. 10th graders in Watts NWP Kate is a 10th grade Language Arts teacher at Locke High School in the Watts area of South LA and member of the UCLA Writing Project, shown here describing the neighborhood and community context that situates her lesson plan about vehicles of protest as a response to trauma. She starts by describing the everyday lived realities of her students, the disconnect between what the district requires them to read and learn in their classes, and how she has reframed canonical books to be more responsive to students who live in communities like Watts, and how this kind of lesson can be identified with everywhere. She uses Lord of the Flies as an example of how she reframed the book characters’ experiences to talk about trauma, violence, limited resources, and support and help seeking practices.
90. "The Drop In" (Raise Up Project)
91. The Black Bruins [Spoken Word] - Sy Stokes
92. Bringing the Noise '15 - Ryan
93. There's no reason anyone can't do it NWP Albert is an Economics teacher at Locke High School in the Watts area of South LA and member of the UCLA Writing Project, shown here talking about pushing the boundaries to work within the system as a social justice educator, the learning process of becoming a teacher, and learning how to incorporate digital media into lessons. At the end of this clip, he says, “If we can do it in South Central at a school that’s going through crazy transformations, and students can get into these amazing projects, there’s no reason why anyone can’t do it.”
95. Bringing the Noise '15 - Connor
96. The Black Beavers [Spoken Word] - UCLA Black Bruins Response
97. Bringing the Noise '15 - Sarah
98. Protest songs and images NWP Kate is a 10th grade Language Arts teacher at Locke High School in the Watts area of South LA and member of the UCLA Writing Project, shown here discussing the lesson plan she created on different vehicles of protest as a response to trauma, drawing inspiration from examples of protest songs, spreadable image and hashtag campaigns, and internet memes. She talks about expanding on traditional notions of civic engagement so that students can engage peers and their communities in ways that are meaningful to them, and also discusses figuring out how to navigate privacy and safety when working with images or videos of her students, sharing various levels of “publicness” that can be achieved through creative lesson planning. At the end of this clip, Kate emphasizes the importance of scaffolding, modeling, and having students practice these kinds of civic engagement, so that they can develop their voices as well as strategies to advocate for themselves and their communities, and learn ways to participate civically.
99. TEDxNYED - Henry Jenkins - 03/06/10
101. A Quick Guide to Understanding Immigration Reform
102. The Raise Up Project: RaiseUpProject.org http://www.raiseupproject.org/Raise Up is an online hip hop and spoken word competition for youth ages 15-22. Youth who enter are asked to speak on the national high school drop out crisis. Five individual winners will each receive a $5,000 educational scholarship and a trip to Washington DC to perform at the Kennedy Center on September 28. One group piece will also be selected to receive a $2,500 award. #RaiseYourVoice & #RaiseTheRate at RaiseUpProject.org Follow us @RaiseUpProject on Twitter, Instagram & Facebook
103. Race & Higher Education - HANGOUT with us, #ITooAmHarvard, #BBUM, and the UCLA Black Bruins TODAY!

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Ethics Are there limits to what activists can or should do in the service of their cause? Does greater power come with greater responsibility? These issues surface most often in discussions around 4Chan and the Anonymous movement, where there is a thin line between actions designed to provoke social change and thus which look much more like online trolling designed to simply provoke a reaction or generate LOLS. Yet, all activist groups have to struggle with what forms of action might be more destructive than beneficial to them, their cause, and society at large.

Real World Example
Building on the "coming out" tactics of the DREAMer movement, Jonathan Perez and Isaac Berrera (two undocumented youth), "walked into the Border Patrol office in Alabama to ask a few questions" on November 10, 2010. They used their phone cameras to document encounter. Both young men were detained as a consequence of their action. A campaign for their release was initiated by their allies and supporters. While both Perez and Berrera were eventually temporarily released, their strategy continues to raise questions about the balance between risk and benefit of their action. Was their action worth the risk? How did their documentation of the event help tip the balance of their civic action?