Online Course Readings
Week 6 (week 5 readings, etc. are below)
Required
Week 2
Required
“Rachel’s War” Emails Home from Rachel Corrie
“Coming Home: Meaning of Homeland for the Jewish People” Amos Oz
For Field Trip
Optional
Rachel's war (additional emails)
Week 3
Required
Recommended
"Ending the US War in Iraq" Phyllis Bennis and Eric Leaver
The Coming Wars by Seymour M. Hersh & Pentagon Reply to Hersh: CNN
Optional
"Beyond Vietnam" MLK speech, April 4, 1967 (with text and mp3 audio version)
"I've Been to the Mountain Top" MLK Speech April 3, 1968 (with text and mp3 audio)
Week 3 Thursday Reading (in place of Dead Cities)
Required
"The Flames of New York" Mike Davis
“World Poverty, Pauperization & Capital Accumulation” Samir Amin
Week 4 Reading (in place of Dead Cities)
Required
"Great Wall of Capital " Mike Davis
"Tsunami: The Archipelago of Horror " Mike Davis
Week 5
Required
"Six Years of NAFTA: A View from Inside the Maquiladoras"
Comité Fronterizo de Obreras (CFO – Border Committee of Women Workers)