For Tuesday: Dark Days

For our class-on-the-road this week, please watch the documentary Dark Days, by Marc Singer, and come to our class-on-the-train prepared to discuss the following in small groups:

1. The residents of Freedom Tunnel created an alternative community to the one above ground. How would you compare and contrast the social values, relationships, and forms of organization that define the community underground with those that define the community above ground?
2. What role does art play in binding the Freedom Tunnel community together as a community, in preserving its history, and as a means of exercising agency?

You'll discuss these questions in small groups on RTD on our way to Urban Peak, then the groups will share with the whole group later on, probably as we eat dinner at the Merc.

Here's the movie. (If for some reason YouTube is giving you a hard time, you can also view it by logging on to DU CourseMedia, clicking on the image beside "SJUS videos," and then on the one labeled Dark Days.)