Whose Freedom? - 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 Whose Freedom? write by George Lakoff. This book was released on 2006-06-27. Whose Freedom? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Since September 11, 2001, the Bush administration has relentlessly invoked the word "freedom." The United States can strike preemptively because "freedom is on the march." Social security should be privatized in order to protect individual freedoms. In the 2005 presidential inaugural speech, the words "freedom," "free," and "liberty" were used forty-nine times. "Freedom" is one of the most contested words in American political discourse, the keystone to the domestic and foreign policy battles that are racking this polarized nation. For many Democrats, it seems that President Bush's use of the word is meaningless and contradictory—deployed opportunistically to justify American military action abroad and the curtailing of civil liberties at home. But in Whose Freedom?, George Lakoff, an adviser to the Democratic party, shows that in fact the right has effected a devastatingly coherent and ideological redefinition of freedom. The conservative revolution has remade freedom in its own image and deployed it as a central weapon on the front lines of everything from the war on terror to the battles over religion in the classroom and abortion. In a deep and alarming analysis, Lakoff explains the mechanisms behind this hijacking of our most cherished political idea—and shows how progressives have not only failed to counter the right-wing attack on freedom but have failed to recognize its nature. Whose Freedom? argues forcefully what progressives must do to take back ground in this high-stakes war over the most central idea in American life.
Freedom Farmers
Freedom Farmers - 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 Freedom Farmers write by Monica M. White. This book was released on 2018-11-06. Freedom Farmers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In May 1967, internationally renowned activist Fannie Lou Hamer purchased forty acres of land in the Mississippi Delta, launching the Freedom Farms Cooperative (FFC). A community-based rural and economic development project, FFC would grow to over 600 acres, offering a means for local sharecroppers, tenant farmers, and domestic workers to pursue community wellness, self-reliance, and political resistance. Life on the cooperative farm presented an alternative to the second wave of northern migration by African Americans--an opportunity to stay in the South, live off the land, and create a healthy community based upon building an alternative food system as a cooperative and collective effort. Freedom Farmers expands the historical narrative of the black freedom struggle to embrace the work, roles, and contributions of southern Black farmers and the organizations they formed. Whereas existing scholarship generally views agriculture as a site of oppression and exploitation of black people, this book reveals agriculture as a site of resistance and provides a historical foundation that adds meaning and context to current conversations around the resurgence of food justice/sovereignty movements in urban spaces like Detroit, Chicago, Milwaukee, New York City, and New Orleans.
Who's Afraid of Academic Freedom?
Who's Afraid of Academic Freedom? - 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 Who's Afraid of Academic Freedom? write by Akeel Bilgrami. This book was released on 2015-02-10. Who's Afraid of Academic Freedom? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In these seventeen essays, distinguished senior scholars discuss the conceptual issues surrounding the idea of freedom of inquiry and scrutinize a variety of obstacles to such inquiry that they have encountered in their personal and professional experience. Their discussion of threats to freedom traverses a wide disciplinary and institutional, political and economic range covering specific restrictions linked to speech codes, the interests of donors, institutional review board licensing, political pressure groups, and government policy, as well as phenomena of high generality, such as intellectual orthodoxy, in which coercion is barely visible and often self-imposed. As the editors say in their introduction: "No freedom can be taken for granted, even in the most well-functioning of formal democracies. Exposing the tendencies that undermine freedom of inquiry and their hidden sources and widespread implications is in itself an exercise in and for democracy."
Tasting Freedom
Tasting Freedom - 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 Tasting Freedom write by Daniel R. Biddle. This book was released on 2010-08-13. Tasting Freedom available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The life and times of the extraordinary Octavius Catto, and the first civil rights movement in America.
She Stood for Freedom
She Stood for Freedom - 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 She Stood for Freedom write by Loki Mulholland. This book was released on 2016. She Stood for Freedom available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Biography of Joan Trumpauer Mulholland follows her from her childhood in 1950s Virginia through her high school and college years, when she joined the Civil Rights Movement, attending demonstrations and sit-ins. She also participated in the Freedom Rides of 1961 and was arrested and imprisoned. Her life has been spent standing up for human rights.
