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With Hope in the Dark, Rebecca Solnit makes a radical case for hope as a commitment to act in a world whose future remains uncertain and unknowable. Drawing on her decades of activism and a wide reading of environmental, cultural, and political history, Solnit argued that radicals have a long, neglected history of transformative victories, that the positive consequences of our acts are not always immediately seen, directly knowable, or even measurable,...
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Under Joe Solmonese's leadership, the Human Rights Campaign became the model other organizations look toward to create effective social and political change. Against daunting odds, HRC was instrumental in passing landmark national legislation such as the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr., Hate Crimes Prevention Act; repealing Don't Ask, Don't Tell; and passing marriage equality acts in eight states. How did Solmonese and HRC do it? What Solmonese...
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A "remarkable collection" of insight and inspiration from 20 leaders and thinkers, including Elizabeth Warren, Howard Zinn, and Oliver Stone ( Publishers Weekly , starred review). As a kid, Noam Chomsky handed out the Daily Mirror at his uncle's newsstand on 72nd Street, inadvertently finding himself in a buzzing intellectual and political hub for European immigrants in New York. Iranian human rights Nobelist Shirin Ebadi and her husband signed their...
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Think about the last time you tried to talk with someone who didn't already agree with you about issues that matter most. How well did it go? These conversations are vital, but too often get stuck. They become contentious or we avoid them because we fear they might. What if, in these difficult conversations, we could stay true to ourselves while enriching relationships and creating powerful pathways forward? What if our divergent values provided healthy...
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Se suele entender por objeción de conciencia la resistencia no violenta al cumplimiento de una norma jurídica -legal o contractual-, con base en las más íntimas, personales e irrenunciables convicciones éticas o religiosas. Su desarrollo jurídico en Colombia ha tenido como punto de referencia principal la jurisprudencia de la Corte Constitucional, aunque pueden identificarse algunas referencias legislativas.
Desde la entrada en vigor de la...
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From the preface:
A democracy is a system of government by the eligible members of a nation, typically through elected representatives.
If the majority of these elected officials do not represent a nation's citizens, if instead they chiefly represent the interests of one affluent class, that nation is not a democracy.
In the United States, the wealthy 1 percent, and the wealthier 0.1 percent, pay for the campaigns of the vast majority of the candidates...
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This is the first book-length treatment of the concepts, designs, methods, and tools needed to conduct effective advocacy and policy change evaluations. By integrating insights from different disciplines, Part I provides a conceptual foundation for navigating advocacy tactics within today's turbulent policy landscape. Part II offers recommendations for developing appropriate evaluation designs and working with unique advocacy and policy change–oriented...
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The story of America, as told to us by the political establishment, is not unlike scripture that attempts to explain our circumstances in a manner that must be accepted as gospel. The truth is that America has been hijacked by powerful special corporate interests whose paths toward profit are lubricated by political accomplices complicit in a scheme that suppresses opportunity and freedom among the masses. Our state of denial has caused us to drift...
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Asistimos a un momento de cesura histórica; uno de esos largos periodos, como fueron el último tercio del siglo XIX, o el periodo comprendido entre el crack de 1929 y el fin de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, en los cuales la crisis y la transformación capitalistas se entrelazan con cambios parejos en los movimientos sociales y políticos. Tiempos de rupturas y esperanzas, aun cuando resulte difícil discernir aún qué perdurará de lo nuevo y qué...
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Worse Than Trump explores the pitfalls of contemporary activism, Black Nationalism, racism in the Democratic Party and describes in detail the author's experiences of the Baltimore Uprising in 2015. Black people must begin to look for freedom beyond the exploitative relationship they have with liberals and the political Left, and Worse Than Trump provides them with a way to do that. Written from the perspective of a grassroots political advocate in...
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Howard Zinn's cogent defense of civil disobedience with a new introduction by the author. In this slim volume, Zinn lays out a clear and dynamic case for civil disobedience and protest, and challenges the dominant arguments against forms of protest that challenge the status quo. Zinn explores the politics of direct action, nonviolent civil disobedience, and strikes, and draws lessons for today.
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In this book I look back at several decades in the late 20th Century and describe them as adolescent growing pains. After WW II America was on a winning streak, amassing fortunes from innovations in manufacturing, agriculture, medicine and science. We sent men to the Moon, we saved millions of lives with medical inventions, with labor saving machines, and we learned how to get the best out of the worlds largest and most diverse "Melting Pot" of cultures...
13) Religious Rhetoric and American Politics: The Endurance of Civil Religion in Electoral Campaigns
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From Reagan's regular invocation of America as "a city on a hill" to Obama's use of spiritual language in describing social policy, religious rhetoric is a regular part of how candidates communicate with voters. Although the Constitution explicitly forbids a religious test as a qualification to public office, many citizens base their decisions about candidates on their expressed religious beliefs and values. In Religious Rhetoric and American Politics,...
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Why is this book tittled The Boston Tea Party; PHASE II? The actual Boston Tea Party was because of the Tea Act of 1773. This Act actually made the tea cheaper, but it was creating a government controled monopoly. The Colonists saw this monopoly as a way to control all items brought into the Colonies. This would also so give the British Parliment complete and total control over their lives. The saying "no taxation without representation" came out...
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Israeli anthropologist and activist Jeff Halper throws a harsh light on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from the point of view of a critical insider. While the Zionist founders of Israel created a vibrant society, culture and economy, they did so at a high price: Israel could not maintain its exclusive Jewish character without imposing on the country's Palestinian population policies of ethnic cleansing, occupation and discrimination, expressed most...
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In carefully crafted official statements, the European Union presents itself as an honest broker in the Middle East. In reality, however, the EU's 27 governments have been engaged in a long process of accommodating Israel's occupation of Palestinian territories.
Journalist David Cronin interrogates the relationship and its outcomes. A recent agreement for 'more intense, more fruitful, more influential co-operation' between the EU and Israel has...
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Las Falanges Juveniles de Franco fueron un elemento privilegiado de la política de juventud del franquismo en las décadas de 1940 y 1950, cuyo principal objetivo fue la socialización de sus integrantes en el ideario nacional-sindicalista. Creadas en 1942 como la organización juvenil del régimen siempre estuvieron bajo el control directo de los falangistas. Tras casi dos décadas de intervención en la juventud española fueron sustituidas en...
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Local participation is the new democratic imperative. In the United States, three-fourths of all cities have developed opportunities for citizen involvement in strategic planning. The World Bank has invested $85 billion over the last decade to support community participation worldwide. But even as these opportunities have become more popular, many contend that they have also become less connected to actual centers of power and the jurisdictions where...
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Contesting Transformation is a sober and critical reflection on the wave of social movement struggles which have taken place in post-Apartheid South Africa.
Moving beyond a social movement scholarship that has tended to romanticise emergent movements, this collection takes stock of the contradiction and complexity that is necessarily entangled in all forms of popular resistance. Through an exploration of labour strikes, legal organisations, community...
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El sector eléctrico español es un ejemplo de manual de lo que sucede, y cómo sucede, cuando se deja en manos privadas un sector estratégico. El resultado final es tristemente conocido. los métodos (marco discursivo, argumentos concretos y maniobras) que usaron entonces las elites económicas y políticas, no tanto. Es de interés recordarlos ahora que esas mismas elites pretenden hacer algo equivalente, y de idéntica forma, con otros sectores...
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