Essays, Research Papers, and Other Things I've Written

Essays, Research Papers, and Other Things I've Written
Here is a collection of most of the significant things I've written since high school.

Trash Hell
A spoof of Threshold, the magazine of the Student Environmental Action Coalition. Full of inside jokes.

Graduate Research Papers

Ambiguous Definitions of Hacker: Conflicting Discourses and Their Impact Upon the Possibilities of Resistance
Activism: Predicting it (A paper I wrote for Graduate Statistics II, uses the General Social Survey to see what causes activism.)
Creating a Culture of Intolerance -- Barriers to Student Activism at Notre Dame: A Three Dimensional Power Analysis: 25+ page graduate sociology term paper.
Differentiating High Cost and High Risk Activism: the Case of Anti-Sweatshop Student Sit-ins -- My Masters Thesis. 85 pages. Based on a survey of participants at 8 sit-ins that I did.
A Gendered Organizational Analysis of the Student Environmental Action Coalition -- Another graduate Sociology paper. 20 pages.
Increasing Commercialization on the Electronic Frontier -- How the Internet is moving from the noncommercial/public sphere to the commercial/private sphere.
The New Left and Radical Economics - An analysis of interrelationship between the New Left (mostly SDS) and the radical economic theory they developed. But actually quite readible.
SEAC's Crisis -- Termpaper on the Student Environmental Action Coalition's 1996 crisis which almost destroyed the organization.

Undergraduate Papers

Black Theology and Economic Justice
Christians and the Sandinista Revolution: God on whose side?
Dorothy Day (her life story, founder of the Catholic Worker movement)
Jesus People (alternative christian movement coming out of the Sixties)
Nuclear Pacifism (and the horrors of the bomb)
Rat Race : An economic country study of Jamaica, and the failure of Michael Manley's democratic socialism
Seeking out a new tradition: the Goddess within (feminist liberation theology / witchcraft)
The Story of Multipartisme, the Front Populaire Ivorien, and Recent Signs of Democracy in Ivory Coast (I wrote it while I was studying there)
US Hegemony and Intervention in Haiti (written from a political science viewpoint)
US Intervention in Latin America (focussing on the Dominican Intervention in 1965 and the Panamanian Invasion of 1989)
Zapata: Struggling for Land (Ya Basta! A biography of a great Mexican Revolutionary hero who fought not for power, but for justice. He inspired the current EZLN who are rebelling currently in the state of Chiapas)

High School Papers

Canadian Commonwealth Federation (precursor to Canadian NDP), oh by the way it's in French, written in high school
COPE (the history of Vancouver's municipal party: the Committee of Progressive Electors, the party of the social activists vs the party of the land developers, also from high school)

Essays, Stories, Manifestos, etc

On the Road 1999 (hitch-hiking from Indiana to Seattle) a couple pictures
On the Road 2001 (hitch-hiking from Kansas to Wyoming for the Earth First! rendez-vous, and back to Iowa)
Greyhound Summer 2002 I travel 11500 miles on Greyhound, crisscrossing the US and Canada.
Student Movements and Tactic Innovation: Decentralized Protesting and the April 16 model
A Theory of Student Power
Beyond Football : Thirty Years of Activism at the University of Notre Dame! (not really a paper)
FSU: A Grassroots Response to the Betrayal of the Mainstream Environmental Movement
Hunger (I once fasted for over four days)

Poems

Yearning to be free
Success (to be read with dry sarcasm. caustic)
I saw God in the Streets (a mumia-christmas-libtheo poem)
Haiti (on the US intervention in Haiti)
Which side are you on?
Because they cannot keep us down!
This Poem Shall Fail. (and re-reading it, it failed at failing as well)
A Bomb (printed in Notre Dame's Juggler!)
Spell me backwards ASP
Love in a Flash (also printed in The Juggler, Spring 1999)
Knight (4 phil ochs)

Songs (mostly spoofs)