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"Winner of the 2009 Joseph J. Spengler Prize for Best Book in the History of Economics, History of Economics Society" "Co-Winner of the 2009 Herbert Jacob Book Prize, Law and Society Association" "One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2009" Steven M. Teles is associate professor of political science at Johns Hopkins University and a fellow at the New America Foundation.
Starting in the 1970s, conservatives learned that electoral victory...
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For over sixty years, Selma James has been organizing from the perspective of unwaged women who, with their biological and caring work, reproduce the whole, human race-along with whatever other labor they are performing. This work goes on almost unnoticed everywhere on the planet and in every culture. When this work is not economically prioritized, politically protected, or socially supported there are dire consequences for the whole of humanity,...
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The modern traffic system is ecologically unsustainable, emotionally stressful, and poses a physical threat to individuals and communities alike. Traffic is not only an ecological and social problem but also a political one. Modern traffic reproduces the rule of the state and capital, and is closely-linked to class society. It is a problem of power. At its core lies the notion of "auto-mobility," a contradictory ideal of free movement closely linked...
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A radical case for the repeal of the 2nd Amendment as the only way to control gun violence in America
There's an average of one mass shooting per day in the United States. Given the ineffectiveness of the gun control lobby, it's time for a strategy with spine. In Repeal the Second Amendment, Allan J. Lichtman has written the first book that uses history, legal theory and up-to-the-minute data to make a compelling case for the amendment's repeal in...
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Le Premier Amendement nous accorde le droit de demander au gouvernement un redressement des griefs, ce que nous devrions chérir. Mais comment devrions-nous exercer ce droit? Nous ferions mieux de le faire d'une manière sage et ce livre discutera exactement comment. 33 pages. Traduit avec onlinedoctranslator. Description traduite avec Reverso.
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When the senatorial election of 2008 between Democrat Al Franken and Republican Norm Coleman stretched on for a contentious six months, people throughout the country wondered about Minnesota's offbeat politics. But Minnesota has been and is now a seedbed for cultural and political movements that have changed the country, and its history weaves a pattern of wide opposition between left and right. In this broad and readable narrative, eminent Minnesota...
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Let Freedom Ring presents a two-decade sweep of essays, analyses, histories, interviews, resolutions, People's Tribunal verdicts, and poems by and about the scores of U.S. political prisoners and the campaigns to safeguard their rights and secure their freedom. In addition to an extensive section on the campaign to free death-row journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal, represented here are the radical movements that have most challenged the U.S. empire from within:...
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En la comunicación política actual, comprendida como quien define, decide, hay que tener siempre presente la importancia de definirnos y definirlos. El modelo flor de posicionamiento ofrece un paso a paso para presentar al propio candidato y a sus adversarios. Esta metodología organiza el trabajo de campaña, la producción de los materiales publicitarios y la acción política con mayor eficacia. También brinda una matriz para utilizar las redes...
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The Manifesto Handbook describes the hidden life of an undervalued genre: the conduit for declarations of principle, advertisements for new "isms," and provocations in pamphlet form. Often physically slight and small in scale, the manifesto is always grand in style and ambition. A bold, charismatic genre, it has founded some of the most important and revolutionary movements in modern history, from the declaration of wars and the birth of nations to...
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The Struggle Within is an accessible yet wide-ranging historical primer about how mass imprisonment has been a tool of repression deployed against diverse left-wing social movements over the last fifty years. Berger examines some of the most dynamic social movements across half a century: black liberation, Puerto Rican independence, Native American sovereignty, Chicano radicalism, white antiracist and working-class mobilizations, pacifist and antinuclear...
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A radical feminist history and street art resource for inspired readers! This book combines short biographies with striking and usable stencil images of thirty women-activists, anarchists, feminists, freedom-fighters, and visionaries.
It offers a subversive portrait history, which refuses to belittle the military prowess and revolutionary drive of women, whose violent resolves often shatter the archetype of woman-as-nurturer. It is also a celebration...
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Provides a blueprint for more effective government and greater citizen participation. "Transparency" has become the new mantra of politicians and pundits alike. But what does it mean in practice? In this informative, clearly written book community activist Donald Gordon defines the essential features of a transparent government and makes a convincing case that it is critical for a healthy and maturing democracy and the basic liberties we all take...
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Lucasville tells the story of one of the longest prison uprisings in U.S. history. At the maximum-security Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio, prisoners seized a major area of the prison on Easter Sunday, 1993. More than 400 prisoners held L block for eleven days. Nine prisoners alleged to have been informants, or "snitches," and one hostage correctional officer, were murdered. There was a negotiated surrender. Thereafter, almost...
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Russell Maroon Shoatz is a political prisoner who has been held unjustly for over thirty years, including two decades in solitary confinement. He was active as a leader in the Black Liberation Movement in Philadelphia, both above and underground. His successful escapes from maximum-security prisons earned him the title "Maroon." This is the first published collection of his accumulated written works, and also includes, new essays written expressly...
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Esta obra analiza crítica y originalmente las políticas multiculturales neoliberales que se han aplicado en el campo jurídico con relación a los pueblos indígenas durante más de una década en México y Guatemala. Son estudios que teorizan desde diferentes perspectivas las nuevas configuraciones de Estado que articulan las políticas multiculturales en el campo de la justicia con las actuales políticas de seguridad nacional y de reforma penal,...
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Nationally known community organizer and activist Harry C. Boyte incites readers to join today's "citizen movement," offering practical tools for how we can change the face of America by focusing on issues close to home. Targeting useful techniques for individuals to raise public consciousness and effectively motivate community-based groups, Boyte grounds his arguments in the country's tradition of "populism," demonstrating how mobilized citizens...
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Nicolas Walter was the son of the neurologist, W. Grey Walter, and both his grandfathers had known Peter Kropotkin and Edward Carpenter. However, it was the twin jolts of Suez and the Hungarian Revolution while still a student, followed by participation in the resulting New Left and nuclear disarmament movement, that led him to anarchism himself. His personal history is recounted in two autobiographical pieces in this collection as well as the editor's...
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Seeds of Change goes beyond the headlines of the last Presidential campaign to describe what really happened in ACORN's massive voter registration drives, why it triggered an unrelenting attack by Fox News and the Republican Party, and how it confronted its internal divisions and scandals.
Based on Atlas's own eyewitness original reporting, as the only journalist to have access to ACORN's staff and board meetings, this book documents the critical...
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"Today's new direct action campaigns require a new, down-to-earth guide to effective campaigning. George Lakey's How We Win is that timely guide. The Women's March of January 21, 2017, was estimated at four million people - the largest assembly of activist protest in U.S. history. Many of those assembled were in the streets for the first time, or returning after a period of inactivity. Lakey, a lifelong activist, helps us understand our political...
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