Freshman Blog

 

Oppression is a cruel,or unjust treatment that is prolonged. The difference between violent and non-violent resistance is that with violence you can get hurt or even killed but with non-violence you are not harming others and you are not being hurt. Agency is the ability to determine the outcome of one’s own life. Oppressed people should use non-violent resistance to gain agency because people want things to be fixed in Oakland by just annoying them to fix it , also the big populations of immigrant wants deportation to stop by protesting or working together to stop it, and a girl not wanting revenge on the person that tried to kill her because she wants peace and love in her community.

 

• What are the different statuses on the posters, and what do each of them mean?

There is 3 different status. They are open, acknowledged, and closed.  I think open means that they haven’t done anything about that and that they just left the case open for other people to see. I think what acknowledged means is that they know about it but they still are waiting for an answer from the Oakland workers.  I think closed means that they solved the case and that they already did something about that.

• Describe what you did (or what you were supposed to do) to find out if the issue you submitted to SeeClickFix was fixed.

Each day we had computers in the class we would go to the website and login and then we would push the little icon on the top right corner and then clicked on “My Content” and then we would see the issue we reported and its status.

• What changes do you notice from the April 13th posters to the April 27th posters ?

I notice that they actually closed some problems and that mostly all of them in the beginning were on open and now they are mostly all in acknowledged.

• Do you think there are any types of issues SeeClickFix is better at getting fixed than others?  Why do you think that?

Yes I think SeeClickFix is better at getting something fixed than others because we all know it takes time to fix potholes or fix sidewalks but picking up trash is easy so that’s why I noticed that the most closed issues are the ones that were reported as trash dumping.

• If an issue someone reported did not get fixed, what is something they might try next?

I think we should keep reporting it till we get what we want because we really want to have a nice and clean environment.

• Do you think people who report issues to SeeClickFix are able to gain agency?  Explain your answer.

I think people that report an issue can get agency because they can see what people are not doing right and they should change that or make it better. Also the people can get agency because they don’t have to pick up over other people things and because the people that repost an issue will be more pleased to see what the people from Oakland can really do to make this a better place to live in.

 

Occupy Oakland is a group of people that fight for people’s rights and try to make protest so people the government would change the inequalities. They have had a lot of events like to change the wealth inequalities of the USA and others. They first began to protest in Frank H Ogawa plaza on October 10, 2011. They have interacted with over 60,000 people since they began their movement. I think the system of oppression mentioned here was politics because this group of people are trying to change the law so it can be equal and fair for others. This organization take place in Frank H Ogawa (in front of Oakland City Hall) and it started in October 11, 2011

 

 

 

Oscar Grant was a 22 year old guy that was just coming back from San Francisco celebrating the new year with his friends. The BART police went to see what happened at bart because there was an armed person in they train. Oscar was one of the suspects along with other people and his friend. This is interpersonal oppression because the police men just came up to him to arrest him but he didn’t do anything wrong the police officers we behaving bad with his for just thinking he might be a part of the people with guns just because he was black. This happened in Fruitvale Bart Station and this shooting happened on January 1, 2009 at 2: 15 am.

 

• In your own words describe what the company called SEECLICKFIX does for people living in Oakland.

SEECLICKFIX helps Oakland by reporting the people that are suppose to keep Oakland clean and so the people that is suppose to fix that can fix that issue going on in Oakland and trying to make oakland a better community and better city.

• Do you think SEECLICKFIX helps people in Oakland to resist oppression?  Explain why, or why not.  

I think Oakland helps people resist oppression because they are alerting the people that are suppose to clean up or fix the problem because it can harm all of us by smelling it when we pass by, being disrespected, or just polluting can cause climate change that can harm us and the world.

• Explain the story of how you took your picture for the SEECLICKFIX project (Describe what you took a picture of, when you took it, where you were, how, and why).

I knew some places that had a lot of trash and I decided to report it but all them were clean so I was really sad but then days later I saw on the sidewalk in the corner of 50th AVE and bancroft that there was trash and this thing on the ground that looked disgusting. It had empty containers of oil and paint. I took the picture Thursday April 12 ,2018. I then sended it to my ousd email.

• What did you do in class to join SEECLICKFIX on their website?  Describe the steps you took.

First, I went in the website. Secondly, I clicked on the sighn up tab. Thirdly, I allowed SEECLICKFIX to see my location. Fourthly, I typed my name. Fifthly, I typed out my ousd email. Sixthly, I put my student ID as my password and typed again for confirmation. Seventhly, I scrolled down and clicked on the tab that it says I’m not a robot.  Eighthly, I clicked SIGN UP AND COMPLETE. Lastly,  I went to my school email and confirmed my account in SEECLICKFIX.

• What did you do in class to report an issue to SEECLICKFIX? DON’T FORGET TO SHARE YOUR ISSUE ID NUMBER!  Describe the steps you took.

Firstly, I went to my school  email and downloaded the picture that I sended myself through the phone.  Secondly, I logged into my SEECLICKFIX account and clicked on Report an Issue. Thirdly, I dragged the red point to where the location of the problem was. Fourthly, I clicked on the word category and I looked for what category my problem was in. Fifthly, I typed the issue title. Sixthly, put the picture I downloaded of the problem to the SEECLICKFIX page. Lastly I reported the issue and copied 4333709 because its my issue ID #.

• Do you predict that the City of Oakland will fix the problem you reported?  Explain why, or why not.

I think they won’t because it’s just trash and there can be more important stuff they are working on.

 

Oppressed people means people that are being treated cruelly and unjust for a long time. System of oppression are organized ways to oppress people by the laws or rules, the thing we need, make, or share and the relationships with each other. Levels of oppression are levels that happens because of laws, how we behave with each other, and if  you believe negative narratives about ourselves. Some ways that oppressed people experience different levels and systems of oppression are that they can have a cruel law that they have to follow, they have a low income so they can’t really buy food, or people behave bad with one another for their own purposes. People can experience different levels and systems of oppression by behaving bad with another by throwing acid to someone face and getting a low income just for being a certain kind of race, sex, and ethnicity.

First of all, some ways that oppressed people experience different levels and systems of oppression are by treating someone cruelly because you don’t want them to go to school. This document is about terrorist not letting Afghan girls get an education, treating  women so unfair that the terrorist control them and if they try to go to school they would throw acid to their face and they throw grenades at their schools. This document is an article on a website called CNN.com titled “Acid attacks, poison: What Afghan girls risk by going to school”  written by Allie Torgan on March 17, 2016. In the article it says “Terrorists will stop at nothing to keep Afghan girls from receiving an education.” This quote shows that the Afghan girls are in a bad situation and dealing with bad things just for going to school and learn what they need because they want to be a  better person. The oppressions that they are experiencing are economic oppression and interpersonal oppression because terrorist are oppressing the girls just by going to school to get what they need and the terrorist behaving bad with the girls by bombing their school and throwing acid at their face.

Second of all, some ways that oppressed people experience different levels and systems of oppression are by earning a little bit of money just because of your race, sex and ethnicity. This document is a graph that shows  amounts of money people earn full time based on their race, sex, and ethnicity from the year 2009 in the U.S. This document is a government agency that keeps track all the people that are working in the US in the year of 2009. This graph shows that woman from every race are getting a low payment than men because woman in total get “$657” and the total for “men is $819”. This demonstrates that the governor of the U.S is not being fair to woman by oppressing them economically because they can work same jobs as men but women would  still get a little bit of money. The oppression that they are experiencing are Interpersonal and Economic because the owners from the company give a little payment to woman when they actually need the money also because the company or womans bosses are behaving in a bad way towards them in giving them a little bit of money.

Power means the ability to control people of behaviors of other people. Marginalize means to put someone to the side or just make them less important. Exploit means to take an unfair advantage over someone for the benefit of themselves. People with power can marginalize and exploit people because they can make them slaves, kill them,tell them where to live, and  dismember someone just for their god.

 

First of all, people with power can exploit and marginalize different identities because they kill them and then take over their land or use them as slaves . People from other territories could go to Haiti without  compasses because there was already a trail of dead Indians. There were only a little amount of survivors. I got this information in Document 1. Document 1 is a quote from a book called In Defence of the Indians by Bartolome De Las Casas made in the year of 1521. In the Document it says that ” a boat could sail from the Bahamas to Haiti without a compass or a chart, guiding itself solely by the trail of the dead Indians who had been thrown from the Spanish ships”. This evidence supports my answer because this means that  Spanish people would’ve tried to erase what they did so other people wouldn’t know. This also means that they have killed a lot of people and exploited them by taking their land. They marginalized others by making them slaves or killing them.

 

Second of all, another way that people with power exploit and marginalize people with different identities is by picking a neighborhood in which someone is able to live in or not, because of the color of their skin. There’s a document that explains how the FEDERAL HOUSING ADMINISTRATION rates neighborhoods based on their social systems like white people living in good insuranced houses while colored people live in red areas where its not able to have an insuranced house. This document is a quote from an article on a new website called The Atlantic titled “ The Case For Reparations” by Ta- Nahesi Coates written in June 2014. In the document it says “neighborhoods where black people lived were rated  D and were usually considered ineligible for the FEDERAL HOUSING ADMINISTRATION insurance… neither the percentage of black people living there nor their social class mattered”. This quote demonstrates that people with power exploit and marginalize people with different identities because the  FHA would send colored people into rated “D” places no matter their social class.

 

Third of all, people with power are able to marginalize and exploited people with different identities by giving them luxuries and then making them sacrifice because they need a warrior to sacrifice for their god. This document is talking about how a boy saw a warrior called Tezcatlipoca and how he was treated like a king but later on he had to be dismembered in a way of showing a sacrifice for their god. This document is  record of a sacrifice Ritual a 17 year old Aztec Scribe wrote and it was told by Friar Bernardino De Sahagun. It was created near the 1529. The document says “he is treated like our most royal family member during the long year leading up to his sacrifice”. This quote proves how people with power are able to marginalize and exploit people with different identities because they are giving the person luxuries and then they kill him so that makes him less important, it exploits him because they didn’t have to give up their lives they just had to dismember him.  

Did you receive any comments to your blog? If so, from whom? What did they say? I received 3 comments. I got it from 2 boys called Xin And Thomas and a girl called Elizabeth. They said :

Dear Juana,

I really liked your shadow box because you put a lot of color in it. It is also very cool you put a lot of work in your box. I like how you talked about Volleyball and how that is important to you. I put things about running on my box because I was on the cross country team. I also like how you talked about Dominant narratives about girls and how you want to show the counter narrative.

Thank you for writing this speaks out about a lot of important things. I hope you keep writing

Thomas.

Copy and paste the comment you made for each student in the space below:

Dear Maria,

Thank you for sharing your work. My name is Juana and I am a student at Fremont High School.
Something I liked about your work was that you want women to be seen strong and powerful because I can relate.
Something I have a question about is Why do you see your world black? Please feel free to comment on my work in the future. The address of my student blog is
https://juanamfhs2021.edublogs.org/2017/11/07/assignment-5/.
Thank You!
[Juana]

Dear Adrian,

Thank you for sharing your work. My name is Juana and I am a student at Fremont High School.
Something I liked about your work was that you made your project colorful and that you were brave to talk about something personal.
Something I have a question about is Why do you feel insecure? Please feel free to comment on my work in the future. The address of my student blog is https://juanamfhs2021.edublogs.org/2017/11/07/assignment-5/ .
Thank You!
[Juana]

 

• What is something that you learned about Christopher Columbus that  you did not know before?

 

I learned that columbus is a bad men to all indigenous people that were innocent. I also learned that columbus had a dirty mind and had dirty plans. He made girls 9 years and up to be sex slaves and he wanted regular man to be slaves. He didn’t discover america and he also didn’t discovered that the earth was round.

 

• Do think Christopher Columbus deserves his own holiday?  Explain your answer.

 

I don’t think columbus should have his own holiday because why would we celebrate someone that was cruel to our ancestors and someone that lied and did bad things in the americas. He should be loved for something horrifying that could happen to anyone. He shouldnt be appreciated to find america or finding that the earth was round because he really wasn’t the first one. And we should celebrate a man that took other people’s land just to exploit them.

 

The meaning of identity are qualities of a person that define who you are. Dominant narrative is a story that a person with privilege would say to a person who doesn’t. Counter narrative is a story or perspective that a marginalized person tell about themselves. I think we have our own counter narrative because people don’t know things about yourself and they wouldn’t know difficulties that you face as a person. Its also important because you can state the fact that you know and tell the person that is saying the dominant things of your identity that there is a cause of everything.

First of all, dominant narratives are story that people that have power say of people that don’t. A counter narrative is stories of a marginalized people say about themselves. A personal example is like some people have told me that I was weak and short. thats a dominant narrative because the person is taller than me. The counter narrative would be stating I’m not weak because i know how to play volleyball and I’m pretty good a serving and I’ve seen plenty of tall people that cant serve. One of my picture shows a guy and girl saying things they like and the girl says she likes to be like a princes and that is not true for me. That’s not true for me because I like the color blue and I like to be athletic.

Second of all ,one of my counter narrative is that colors don’t have genders because a boy can like pink and a girl can like blue and there is nothing to be afraid of. And my identity is that I like the color blue. That picture artifacts my counter narrative because people say pink color is for girls and that is not true because boys can like the color pink also. I was put to put a moon with a sun because that is just something I want to represent as that I have been seeing night and day and that every day has been a good day because I am living.

Third of all,  one of my identities is that I am a student from fremont high because that is true. Also because it was my decision to come here. I put a picture of the school because I go to that school. Another example of my identities is that I like to play volleyball and that is how I identify myself. I put picture of a quote saying that my heart will be always in the court because I really like playing volleyball even though I can have a hard time. This is one of my identities because really like playing volleyball. I also put blue roses because I like the color blue and I like roses.