Assignment task:
Use the following questions to determine what kind of advocacy-related work you've encountered thus far in your research for your CP and reflect on where you need to go now. Take some notes as you read the prompts below, then compose two short paragraphs (5-7 sentences each), one on what you found so far in your CP/past research, and one reflecting on where you feel you need to start looking from that (re: what questions do you need answers to? Where do you think you could find these answers?). Paragraph 1: Define the advocacy effort(s) you found while researching your CP based on the guiding questions below (you don't have to have answers to all of them). Guiding Questions: Have you found any relevant instances of laws or policies that people tried to create or eliminate or amend or replace? Any federal laws that conflict with state laws that conflict with local ordinances? Any efforts to litigate on behalf of those who are suffering as a result of the problem your CP investigated? Any organizing efforts at the local level designed to generate support or raise public awareness? What about media campaigns? Do you have an idea of what sort of effort(s) you will or will need to pursue for this project? Paragraph 2: Determine what you know and what you need to know for beginning research on your AP based on the guiding questions below (you don't have to have answers to all of them). Guiding Questions: Were the efforts you found completely or partially successful? How so? Were they a total failure? How so? Why do you think that is? Were they designed to be effective in the long term? Short term? What was the short-term cost to the long term solution and vice versa? What were the obstacles to solving or mitigating the problem-lack of money? Legal challenges? Lack of public support? How does one effort compare to another? (maybe two efforts to litigate-one more successful than the other; maybe one effort to legislate and another to create better policy.) Is the effort feasible? Why or why not? And according to who or what? Do you have an idea of what sort of information you will need in order to make an informed judgment about the efforts you will examine?