{"id":2788,"date":"2016-04-23T16:46:05","date_gmt":"2016-04-23T20:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/?p=2788"},"modified":"2016-04-23T23:22:24","modified_gmt":"2016-04-24T03:22:24","slug":"activism-through-pain-mourning-and-consciousawareness-raising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/activism-through-pain-mourning-and-consciousawareness-raising\/","title":{"rendered":"Activism through Pain &amp; Mourning: Genocide Victim Name Readings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/13002374_968890099868272_8573043591005834590_o.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2797\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2797\" src=\"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/13002374_968890099868272_8573043591005834590_o-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"13002374_968890099868272_8573043591005834590_o\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/13002374_968890099868272_8573043591005834590_o-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/13002374_968890099868272_8573043591005834590_o-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/13002374_968890099868272_8573043591005834590_o-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/13002374_968890099868272_8573043591005834590_o.jpg 1158w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Module six discussed many forms of activism, including creating a consciousness or awareness surrounding pain and mourning that results from a\u00a0particular\u00a0experience. This brought to mind spoken works\u00a0as a form of mourning I have seen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">One form of awareness raising activism is the name readings that are undertaken to remember the victims of genocide. Raphael Lemkin\u2019s is credited with coining the term \u201cgenocide\u201d in 1944, and a number of Human Rights groups undertake name reading ceremonies in order to acknowledge the victims of genocides in Bosnia, Darfur, Rwanda, Armenia, Cambodia and the Holocaust. \u00a0Typically undertaken for a 24 hour period, the ceremonies call on a number of volunteers to read a list of names aloud. \u00a0The readings are facilitated\u00a0by The Coalition for Preserving Memory at Duke, and the Coalition for Human Rights at UNC.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The readings demonstrate the capacity and importance of activism in a past context. \u00a0Often activist work is associated with issues in a current context, but the adoption of a mourning and conscious lens shows the importance of remembering so as not to repeat, in this case, historical atrocities. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">For more information about the movement on a global scale, look at the Together We Remember movement:\u00a0http:\/\/togetherweremember.org\/<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Module six discussed many forms of activism, including creating a consciousness or awareness surrounding pain and mourning that results from a\u00a0particular\u00a0experience. This brought to mind spoken works\u00a0as a form of mourning I have seen. One form of awareness raising activism is the name readings that are undertaken to remember the victims of genocide. Raphael Lemkin\u2019s &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/activism-through-pain-mourning-and-consciousawareness-raising\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Activism through Pain &amp; Mourning: Genocide Victim Name Readings&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":936,"featured_media":2797,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[63,2496,2497,2494,2495,2504,2506,2505],"coauthors":[397],"class_list":["post-2788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-activism-and-social-movements","tag-activism","tag-awareness","tag-genocide","tag-memory","tag-mourning","tag-name-readings","tag-student-activism","tag-together-we-remember"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/936"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2788"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2798,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2788\/revisions\/2798"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2788"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}