UC Santa Cruz · Spring 2019
The Trajectory of Justice in America
Danny Sheehan’s spring 2019 UC Santa Cruz course on climate change, the Indigenous uprising at Standing Rock and the debate over impeachment, set in a long historical perspective.
The course opens with climate science, including two guest lectures by Dr. Jon Conway, then follows the politics of oil from the robber barons to today. Its middle weeks examine the Mueller report and historical precedents for impeachment, and it closes with Standing Rock as a microcosm of the climate fight and strategies of resistance.
Danny represented Standing Rock water protector Chase Iron Eyes. See Standing Rock and the Lakota People’s Law Project.
Lectures
- Class 1: Climate change, Standing Rock and Donald Trump
- Class 2: From Desert Storm to Donald Trump
- Class 3: Climate change facts, with Dr. Jon Conway
- Class 4: The environmental impacts of climate change, with Dr. Jon Conway
- Class 5: Robber barons, oil and power from 1860 to today
- Class 6: The Mueller report and impeachment
- Class 7: What Mueller missed
- Class 8: Precedents for impeachment and burying the true crime
- Class 9: The CIA, Iran-Contra and the Rulers of the Realm
- Class 10: Impeachment and censorship
- Class 11: Investigating the investigation
- Class 12: The origins of a constitutional crisis
- Class 13: To impeach or not to impeach
- Class 14: Oil, money and power
- Class 15: How did we get here? Oil, money and power, part 2
- Class 16: Exploring strategies of resistance
- Class 17: Mueller, Standing Rock and strategies of resistance
- Class 18: Getting personal with climate change
- Class 19: Final thoughts and strategic stories