J 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: White Supremacy
J100 Lecture #11 - Scot Nakagawa, ChangeLab (Advocacy and Social Justice - Journalism)
Guest Speaker - Scot Nakagawa, ChangeLab (Advocacy and Social Justice - Journalism)
●ChangeLab
○Conceived as an organization laboratory
○Have thought labs/race labs
○Groups that have been
○Grew up in Hawaii in a complex social environment
■Dynamics of community were very complicated
■Grew up trying to figure out all of these dynamics
■No street lights
●Very dark at night
■People live far from each other
●Hard to intervene in domestic violence
○Formal education stopped at 11th grade
■Dropped out of high school
■Went to college for 1 year at age 23
○Did jobs to pay for his adult literacy classes
■School janitor
■Cafeteria worker
■This turned into a job
■Training App program
●President Carter program where low-income people could get
jobs easier
●Worked with people in emergency shelters
●Between the ages of 18 - 23 he opened 13 emergency shelter
○Moved to Corvallis
■Worked at a shelter and referred others to free medical services
○Moved to Portland
■Worked with homeless people
●Most significant experience in all of this was that during his time
at Worksite Project
○Attacked by Neonazis
■Got away safe
■Very scary
■Traumatic
■Talked with police and filed a hate crime report
■Joined a group that dealt with hate groups
●His report was never filed with the officer who took it
■Went from being a service provide to being a political activist
Document Summary
J100 lecture #11 - scot nakagawa, changelab (advocacy and social justice - journalism) Guest speaker - scot nakagawa, changelab (advocacy and social justice - journalism) Grew up in hawaii in a complex social environment. Grew up trying to figure out all of these dynamics. Went to college for 1 year at age 23. Did jobs to pay for his adult literacy classes. President carter program where low-income people could get jobs easier. Between the ages of 18 - 23 he opened 13 emergency shelter. Worked at a shelter and referred others to free medical services. Most significant experience in all of this was that during his time at worksite project. Talked with police and filed a hate crime report. Joined a group that dealt with hate groups. His report was never filed with the officer who took it. Went from being a service provide to being a political activist. Realize that there must be something wrong with this situation.
