The Suppression of Dissent - 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 The Suppression of Dissent write by Jules Boykoff. This book was released on 2013-09-13. The Suppression of Dissent available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Despite longstanding traditions of tolerance, inclusion, and democracy in the United States, dissident citizens and social movements have experienced significant and sustained - although often subtle and difficult-to observe - suppression in this country. Using mechanism-based social-movement theory, this book explores a wide range of twentieth century episodes of contention, involving such groups as mid-century communists, the Black Panther Party, the American Indian Movement, and the modern-day globalization movement.
Beyond Bullets
Beyond Bullets - 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 Beyond Bullets write by Jules Boykoff. This book was released on 2007. Beyond Bullets available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How government and media team up to silence, sometimes permanently, dissenting voices in the United States.
Gag Rule
Gag Rule - 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 Gag Rule write by Lewis Lapham. This book was released on 2005-06-28. Gag Rule available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From one of America’s most important voices of protest, an urgent polemic about the strangling of meaningful dissent—the lifeblood of our democracy—at the hands of a government and media increasingly beholden to the wealthy few. Dissent is democracy. Democracy is in trouble. Never before, Lewis Lapham argues, had voices of protest been so locked out of the mainstream conversation, so marginalized and muted by a government that recklessly disregards civil liberties, and by an ever more concentrated and profit-driven media in which the safe and the selling sweep all uncomfortable truths from view. In the midst of the “war on terror”—which made the hunt for communists in the 1950s look, in its clarity of aim and purpose, like the Normandy landings on D-Day—we faced a crisis of democracy as serious as any in our history. The Bush administration made no secret of its contempt for a cowed and largely silenced electorate, and without bothering to conceal its purpose the government coordinates, “not the defense of the American citizenry against a foreign enemy, but the protection of the American oligarchy from the American democracy.” Gag Rule is a rousing and necessary call to action in defense of one of our most important liberties, the right to raise our voices in dissent and have those voices heard.
Defend Dissent
Defend Dissent - 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 Defend Dissent write by Glencora Borradaile. This book was released on 2021. Defend Dissent available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Preempting Dissent
Preempting Dissent - 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 Preempting Dissent write by Greg Elmer. This book was released on 2008. Preempting Dissent available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The legacy of the Bush administration and its "War on Terror" includes a new logic of surveillance, suppressing public dissent and mobilizing both "fear" and "faith." In this accessible book, Elmer and Opel show that this new logic stretches well beyond the realm of airport security and international relations into everyday police techniques, including the use of Tasers, the deployment of "stealth" crowd control, the zoning of protestors and the suppression of public dissent. Drawing on social theories and media analyses, this book reveals the underlying "logic of preemption" whereby threats must be eliminated before they materialize. By addressing the implications of this new logic, Elmer and Opel lay the groundwork for more effective resistance.
