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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron Bornstein)
Thu Oct 25 16:37:02 2001
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To: peace-list@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 16:36:44 -0400
From: Aaron Bornstein <aaronmb@MIT.EDU>
If you'd like to be involved in organizing the IAP social justice class,
add yourself to the peace-class list:
blanche peace-class -a $USER
Here's some basic information:
17.919
Special Topics in Political Science
What the American Government Doesn't Want You to Know
This year we're looking to make it a 9 unit research project-oriented
class. Students will investigate recently declassified material in an
attempt to unearth new information regarding events in recent American
history, some of which may be in conflict with accepted fact. Lecturers
will present background on four or five periods in recent history and
guide student groups through their investigation. Results will be written
up as papers and presented in class towards the end of the term.
The course outline is certainly not set in stone as of yet. We're still
deciding on lecturers (Chomsky is the only one who's been decided so far)
and periods of investigation (current candidates include Cuba in the 60's,
Afghanistan in the late 70's, COINTELPRO, Middle East in the late 60's,
and the American labor movement). We have access to "reams" of recently
declassified material on these areas and are searching for more. Any and
all help or suggestions would be appreciated.
--Aaron
stuff: http://www.mit.edu/~aaronmb/
