Session One: What is Domestic Extremism?

Session One: What is Domestic Extremism?

Music: "The Rising," Bruce Springsteen, & The E Street band   Link to Site

Essential Questions:

• What is Extremism? What is terrorism?

• What are the current realities of extremism/terrorism in the US today?

• What are the roots and fruits of extremism/terrorism?

• How did 9/11/01 influence our thinking about terrorism?

• How did the War on Terror impact the rise of US domestic terrorism?

Gatherings: (1)"One reason that I am taking this course is..." (2) "A question that I have about Domestic Extremism/Terrorism is...."

Rick's Rap (homework, news of the day)

• zoom etiquette • course overview • Homework • News of the day.

Exercise: 

•  defining extremism & terrorism • Roots and Fruits of extremism/terrorism

• Exercise: 

•"Remembering 9/11" Choices, Brown University Link to Site

• "Remembering 1/6/21

Homework

• video, Patricia Taddonio, From Sept. 11 to Jan. 6: How the Capital Insurrection was the Logical endpoint of the 9/11 era," excerpt from  "America after 9/11," Frontline/PBS,  9/7/21Link to video

• Keegan Hankes & Rachel Janik, "The Year in Hate 2020," from the Year in Hate and Extremism, Southern Poverty Law Center, 2021, pp. 2-11 Link to Article

• "Spencer Ackerman on How the US War on Terror  Fueled and Excused Right -Wing Extremism at Home," Democracy Now   (start at minute 42), 9/7/21 Link to site

Resources:

• video, "Documenting Hate: New American Nazis," Frontline,  11/20/18 Link to Site

• Heather Cox Richardson, "September 11," Letters From An American, 9/11/21 Link to Site

• "President Biden on the 20th Anniversary of 9/11," The White House, 9/10/21 Link to Site

•  President Biden speech on the Anniversary of 1/6/21, 1/6/22 Link to Site

• "Extremism," Wikipedia  Link to Site

• "Definition of Terrorism," Wikipedia Link to Site

• "What is a Hate Group?,  Southern Poverty Law Center,  Link to Site

• "America After 9/11," Frontline/PBS, 9/7/21 Link to Site

• Spencer Ackerman, " How Sept. 11 Gave Us Jan.6," NY Times, 9/12/21 Link to Site