Justice Ignited - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Justice Ignited write by Brian Martin. This book was released on 2007. Justice Ignited available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Attacks can backfire on attackers_sometimes spectacularly. In March 1991, an observer videotaped several Los Angeles police beating Rodney King with their batons. Shown on television, the beating caused enormous damage to the reputation of the police and led to the chief's resignation. This incident and others, such as the 2003 invasion of Iraq and the 1965 surveillance of Ralph Nader, prove that all sorts of attacks can backfire, from torture and massacres to job dismissals and reprisals against whistle-blowers. Through numerous detailed case studies, Justice Ignited presents the first comprehensive treatment of the dynamics of backfire, as it reveals the most promising tactics for causing the backfire of unfair attacks. Understanding backfire_both promoting and inhibiting it_is vitally important for activists and everyone else who wants to be effective in the face of injustice.
Stirrings
Stirrings - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Stirrings write by Lana Dee Povitz. This book was released on 2019-08-27. Stirrings available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the last three decades of the twentieth century, government cutbacks, stagnating wages, AIDS, and gentrification pushed ever more people into poverty, and hunger reached levels unseen since the Depression. In response, New Yorkers set the stage for a nationwide food justice movement. Whether organizing school lunch campaigns, establishing food co-ops, or lobbying city officials, citizen-activists made food a political issue, uniting communities across lines of difference. The charismatic, usually female leaders of these efforts were often products of earlier movements: American communism, civil rights activism, feminism, even Eastern mysticism. Situating food justice within these rich lineages, Lana Dee Povitz demonstrates how grassroots activism continued to thrive, even as it was transformed by unrelenting erosion of the country's already fragile social safety net. Using dozens of new oral histories and archives, Povitz reveals the colorful characters who worked behind the scenes to build and sustain the movement, and illuminates how people worked together to overturn hierarchies rooted in class and race, reorienting the history of food activism as a community-based response to austerity. The first book-length history of food activism in a major American city, Stirrings highlights the emotional, intimate, and interpersonal aspects of social movement culture.
Igniting Justice and Progressive Power
Igniting Justice and Progressive Power - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Igniting Justice and Progressive Power write by David B. Reynolds. This book was released on 2021-06-21. Igniting Justice and Progressive Power available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A progressive resurgence is happening across the United States. This book shows how long-lasting coalitions have built progressive power from the regional level on up. Anchored by the "think and act" affiliate organizations of the Partnership for Working Families (PWF) these regional power building projects are putting in place the vision, policy agenda, political savvy, and grassroots mobilization needed for progressive governance. Through six sections, the book explores how Partnership for Working Families projects are a core part of the defeat of the right-wing in states such as California; the challenge to corporate neoliberalism in traditionally "liberal" areas; and contests for power in such formally solid red states as Arizona, Georgia, and Colorado. This book considers how these PWF groups work on economic, racial and environmental justice challenges, equitable development, and other critical issues. It addresses how, at their core, they bring together labor, community, environmental, and faith-based organizations and the coalitions and campaigns that they developed have won and continue to win substantial victories for their communities. Igniting Justice and Progressive Power will be of interest to activists and concerned citizens looking to understand how lasting political change actually happens as well as all scholars and students of social work, urban geography, political sociology, community development, social movements and political science more broadly.
Ignited
Ignited - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ignited write by Mark Waid. This book was released on 2021-02-17. Ignited available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The lives of six teenagers are changed forever when tragic chaos ensues in their high school. Now the power to restore order is literally in their hands.
Unsafe at Any Speed
Unsafe at Any Speed - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Unsafe at Any Speed write by Ralph Nader. This book was released on 1965. Unsafe at Any Speed available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Account of how and why cars kill, and why the automobile manufacturers have failed to make cars safe.
