Jessiel Gerena
WST 3015
Activism:My group service learning project is to create a movement for a National Womens Holiday with Nina Perez and NOW.The purpose of this holiday is to recognize the struggle and efforts by women who fought for equality. One of the women that exmplifys the struggle of the suffrage movement is Alice Paul.Alice Paul was a female American suggragist leader who split from The National American Womans Suffrage Association to advocate more aggressive for the right to vote. We met with our community partner Nina Perez to discuss our roles with the project and we assigned roles to our group members .
Reflection: I choose to do the political outreach because im a poltical science major and my expertise of the political system would greatly help the project. my assignment would be to compile a list of congressmen and congresswomen that would be sympathetic to our cause.This is one the most important parts because all the hard work could be done by collecting petitions and gardnering support through our facebook group but if we don’t support through our political system we may never see our goal accomplished. Doing this project helps me see how the poltical process works and how much the political systems is broken by trouble it takes to contact congress people. The prestige it takes for politicians to attach their name to this legislation.
Reciprocity: This project is helping our community partner Nina Perez because this is a project that she wanted to start and get a movement but like all civil rights and social movements , you need people to help you.This is also helping Nina Perez gardner support through outreaching through like minded organizations and political outreach.We created a facebook group so that we can make it easier to get the word out on a mass scale about our project.This creates the foundation for the eventual National Holiday honoring a woman. The education system makes”virtually no references to women.She suggested a textbook change but met a great deal of resistance”(Seely). This is what we are up against.
Works Cited
Seely, Megan. "Catch A Wave." Fight like a Girl: How to Be a Fearless Feminist. New York: New York UP, 2007. 27. Print.
