Question 1. 1-Analyze the mission statement for NETWORK

Answer 1: Mission for Network-Nun on the bus is led by a sister named as Simone Campbell. A small group of different people are travelling in the United States to fight for the Tax law which was being approved. Their mission is to break this law because they think that this is against the justice and Jesus didn’t want this in the way. Rich people are taking tax on the name of law from poor people and are just filling their own pockets with money. Poor people already can’t afford school fess, food and things like this so this should be stopped. They have a mission to ask from people that who agrees with the law and who don’t so that they can do protest to change this law.

Answer: 2. 2-Consider NETWORK’s brand and the brand for the campaign. Are they effective? Explain.

 Of course, all the effort being done by different people who are travelling in different cities is effective. There are many of the people in the society who can’t raise their voice on their own but if the group becomes large than obviously voice also becomes heavy and people start listening to it. All this effort is just being done to make justice and faith in the country and make people relax from the burden of Tax which has been named as a law. So I think yes this is a great effort and everyone who can be a part of this campaign should raise their voice to get justice for the poor people.

 Answer 3. 3-Why did they select the route that was taken?

 The Nuns in the bus started their tour from Los Angeles and finished their trip in Palm Beach, Florida at a Mara logo resort. They took this route to cover maximum cities so that they can know and listen about different stories from different people and then can tell each of them to the president after reaching Mara Logo resort. They also chose this city for the tour, because this has not only been affected by the politics, but this city has also seen the effects on economic terms as well. Their advertising strategy was so effective as it had the potential to attract the attention of people.

Answer: 4. 4-What was the purpose of the Nuns on the Bus tour stopping in Erie? 

 Purpose of the Nuns on the Bus tour stopping in Erie is to spread the word on the equality of wealth. Main purpose was to stop at different towns to do the same task and same is the case with Erie. Another reason for stopping in Erie is that many of the factories were getting closed due to low budget and further projects were getting cancelled. People living their welcomed all the travelers with full enthusiasm. Team Nuns on the Bus just wants to make people realize that GOP tax law should not have been made and now it should not be continued because through this poor people are becoming unable to bear their expenditures and rich people are getting richer day after day.

Answer 5: Nuns on the bus is symbolic movement aiming to spread awareness about the social issues. This event was effective in outreach of message. They were able to have attention of the masses and their message resonated within the political lobbies too. It helps the group emerge on its basic and core values of social justice. The group was able to make their demands or concerns recognized at a national level. The group didn’t use only religion but were rational as well. They used a rational approach in spreading their message, which was to spread their message by doing something different than using the traditional protest people do so that their voice can be heard, and they and make it able to get across that they want social justice. The underlying meaning of the movement always has been religion and social justice but they focused on social justice part to draw attention. They have been very successful to do it. They used an emotional as well as moral appeal that raising tax is putting more pressure on the poor ones, whereas rich are getting richer, so suppressing the deprived group of society is morally wrong.

Answer 6: Nuns on the bus did not do anything out of the box but it was the symbolic that nuns came out on road. They had a political agenda coupled with religious beliefs. They traveled 5000 miles to campaign to people to vote. Equating it with doing well and playing part in the judge. They used their position to motivate people and encourage them. The nuns were able to influence the people with their social status and call them to action for the greater interest to come out of the houses. Also they added nuns support as they move along different cities. This support was generated to encourage people to vote for this cause in upcoming election. To make a pledge for voting, the people were also given an opportunity to make their signatures on the nuns’ bus to show their utmost willingness and support for this social cause.

Answer 7: The whole idea on which the nuns on the bus are based on engaging community and expanding the network for their mission. The movement is a peaceful one aiming to harmonize the social justice demands of people. There were different things the network achieved. The few success for the community of the movement is;

- They encouraged people to vote: people didn’t use to think before giving votes and never bothered as well. But they encouraged the people living in small towns to go out of their houses and give votes.

- Made people aware of the social issues: Many of the people are not aware of the social issues. They helped people in letting know about all such issues.

- They had a clear vision and political agenda: They wanted to help people who couldn’t raise their voices and they had clear vision what they need to do.

Apart from this the movement emerged as the community leader and a platform for people to organize without being associated with any political party. Despite having a political agenda they were able to emerge as nonpolitical pro people force within people. The greatest success was they were able to resonate to their core beliefs with the masses that they came in contact with. They were also able to break certain stereotypes of oppression of the sisters. They talking about issues empowered women and nuns and showed the positive aspect of the church