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Verso Books Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties
Book SynopsisHistories of the US sixties invariably focus on New York City, but Los Angeles was an epicenter of that decade's political and social earthquake. L.A. was a launchpad for Black Power-where Malcolm X and Angela Davis first came to prominence and the Watts uprising shook the nation-and home to the Chicano walkouts and Moratorium, as well as birthplace of 'Asian America' as a political identity, base of the antiwar movement, and of course, centre of California counterculture.Mike Davis and Jon Wiener provide the first comprehensive movement history of L.A. in the sixties, drawing on extensive archival research, scores of interviews with principal figures of the 1960s movements, and personal histories (both Davis and Wiener are native Los Angelenos). Following on from Davis's award-winning L.A. history, City of Quartz, Set the Night on Fire is a fascinating historical corrective, delivered in scintillating and fiercely elegant prose.Trade ReviewThis huge and exhilarating work of history aims to restore some depth and accuracy to how we talk about Los Angeles in the 1960s ... Davis and Wiener have created an important book to read in a time where LA needs more than ever to be mobilized. -- John Freeman * Lit Hub, Most Anticipated Books of 2020 *The familiar, monochromatic picture of Los Angeles in the sixties - all Hollywood pop and Didion ennui - required a million people of African, Asian, and Mexican ancestry to be 'edited out of utopia,' as Mike Davis and Jon Wiener put it. What those people actually did, alongside antiwar feminists, high school students, and others, is the heart of this book, and it's a big heart. No one could tell these intersecting stories better than Davis and Wiener, and their book gives us back a great city's greatness in its movements, edges, and other centers, so many of them forgotten. -- Rebecca Solnit, author of Recollections of My NonexistenceFrom the Ash Grove to Aztlán, from the Valley to Vietnam, it's all here. In showing how struggles for free health care, adequate housing, functional schools, racial and sexual liberation, new forms of creativity, and the human right of freedom from brutal police violence came together into a mighty torrent, Wiener and Davis have written a revolutionary history for an age of continuing contradictions. -- Daniel Widener, author of Black Arts WestThe great task of Set the Night on Fire is to remedy the erasures of the black, brown, and queer activists who put their bodies on the line. Revolutionary artist-nuns, educator-organizers, and free-jazz radicals are just a few of a vast cast that together paint a stirring portrait of a visionary city ever emerging from the shadows of the old order. Viva Los Angeles Libre! -- Rubén Martínez, author of Desert AmericaThis is not the theme park of mansions, beaches, and glitzed-up noir, but the undercity of outsiders struggling to get out from under the savage police to stake out a place in the sun. A rare and necessary saga of unsung heroes, vicious authorities, and unpunished crimes. -- Todd Gitlin, author of The SixtiesThis is history from below, in the very best sense. A magnificent mural of the local sixties, written with verve and passion by two of my favorite locals. -- Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Natural CausesA richly detailed portrait of a city that seethed with rebellious energy. * Kirkus Reviews *Set the Night on Fire fixes on one mission - collate the stories of emancipation struggle in '60s LA - and runs with it, using document research to complete the job. This is the approach Davis has been using in the twenty-first century, and it works. -- Sasha Frere-Jones * Bookforum *An indispensable portrait of an unexplored chapter in the history of American progressivism. * Publishers Weekly *Insightful and innovative...Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties is both a fierce political and cultural history and a geographic corrective. -- William Deverell * Alta *Authoritative and impressive...Set the Night on Fire is an essential reference to L.A.'s rich history of civil unrest, with a hopeful undercurrent. Movements can and often do force change. -- Erik Himmelsbach-Weinstein * Los Angeles Times *A monumental history of rebellion and resistance. * Los Angeles Review of Books *Combining comprehensive, mineshaft-deep research with unique firsthand knowledge, [Davis and Wiener's] recounting of the radical '60s in Los Angeles will likely not be surpassed. -- Jerald Podair * Los Angeles Review of Books *Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties is a book as vast as the city itself. -- Ron Jacobs * CounterPunch *Monumental...For new generations growing up in a city whose very history is rarely acknowledged to exist, Set the Night on Fire is a vital primer in resistance, a gift to the future from the past. -- Ben Ehrenreich * Guardian *These are war stories, the intended audience of which is the young organizers of today, many of them the children and grandchildren of his friends and heroes in the sixties. -- Dana Goodyear * New Yorker *Anyone familiar with Mike Davis's magisterial social history of Los Angeles, City of Quartz, will know what to expect in terms of the epic sweep and questioning tone of Set the Night on Fire. This time, the focus is firmly on race and rebellion, but he and Wiener also map out the myriad protest movements, countercultural voices and campaigns that made 1960s Los Angeles an altogether more edgy and volatile city than the state's hippy capital, San Francisco. -- Sean O'Hagan * Guardian *Davis and Wiener have crafted a book that is both encyclopedic and prophetic, scholarly and polemical...Readers would be hard-pressed to find better guides for a tour of leftist Los Angeles. -- Sean Dempsey, S.J. * America magazine *This very readable but meticulously detailed year-by-year account has relevance far beyond its time and place. The sixties were a decade that shaped politics for half a century and the authors show how different struggles were interlinked across the US. -- Glyn Robbins * Morning Star *An essential rescued history * New York Journal of Books *Mike Davis and Jon Wiener tell the story of a decade of explosions. -- Meagan Day * Jacobin *In Set the Night on Fire, Mike Davis and Jon Wiener provide an extensive history of L.A. that includes interviews with key players from these movements and their own personal recollections. -- Danielle Bauter * Los Angeles Daily News *Highly readable...Davis and Wiener succeed in giving renewed attention to the neglected voices of subjugated minorities central to the reconstruction of society. * LSE Review of Books *An astonishing book that proves that people really do have the power to force change for the better. * Buzz Magazine *A remarkably well-researched volume, which chronologically itemises each and every twist and turn in the muddled patchwork of American history -- KCW LondonAn exhaustive and in-depth presentation of the wide-ranging big and small resistance movements of [the sixties] with a sober and insightful account of their strengths and weaknesses, including the role that the political left played in them. Its publication in 2020 could not be more timely in these days when tens of thousands have been demonstrating in Los Angeles and across the country and world against police brutality and racism. -- Samuel Farber * Jacobin *A history of the social and political struggles of the 1960s unlike most others. * The VVA Veteran *Monumental...Set the Night on Fire is, above all, a historical account of how a rainbow of insurgent social movements tried to peel back the glitter, dismantle the police state, and replace elite white rule and its regimes of segregation, militarism, patriarchy, and conformity with a society oriented toward "serving the people." -- Robin D. G. Kelley * Boston Review *Two veteran authors allow themselves vast detail to tell us about the cradle of counterculture, in all the far-flung rebellious meanings of the term. It is also the story of L.A.'s contested racial space, with contradictions ranging from radicalized white youngsters in the suburban sprawl to Chicano Teamsters breaking strikes. -- Paul Buhle * Rain Taxi *Set the Night on Fire is a sort of bequeathal from one generation of activists to another. * Mother Jones *Timely...We can do more than repeat the past; we can also learn from it. That gives reason for hope and as Set the Night on Fire makes clear, hope has always been Leviathan's great antagonist. * Times Literary Supplement *An invigorating and inspiring read * Morning Star *Set the Night on Fire is a revelatory history of Los Angeles in the 1960s, undermining pervasive media myths of the era. -- Alex Ross * Wall Street Journal *A page-turning survey of social movement activism in 1960s Los Angeles...Set the Night on Fire is a serious, informative book that is also a pleasurable, fun, and inspiring read. -- Andrew S. Baer * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books *Essential and long overdue. -- David Ulin * Los Angeles Times ("Best California books of 2020") *An invigorating and inspiring read * Morning Star *Set the Night on Fire aims to dislodge the popular conception of sixties radicalism as the terrain of white Berkeley hippies and New Left agitators. Instead, Blacks, Latinos, high-school students, and unreconstructed communists were at the center of the city's struggles against segregation and police impunity. -- John Thomason * Commonweal Magazine *
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Verso Books Strike Art: Contemporary Art and the Post-Occupy
Book SynopsisWhat is the relation of art to the practice of radical politics today? Strike Art explores this question through the historical lens of Occupy, an event that had artists at its core. Precarious, indebted, and radicalized, artists redirected their creativity from servicing the artworld into an expanded field of organizing in order to construct of a new-if internally fraught-political imaginary set off against the common enemy of the 1%. In the process, they called the bluff of a contemporary art system torn between ideals of radical critique, on the one hand, and an increasing proximity to Wall Street on the other-oftentimes directly targeting major art institutions themselves as sites of action.Tracking the work of groups including MTL, Not an Alternative, the Illuminator, the Rolling Jubilee, and G.U.L.F, Strike Art shows how Occupy ushered in a new era of artistically-oriented direct action that continues to ramify far beyond the initial act of occupation itself into ongoing struggles surrounding labor, debt, and climate justice, concluding with a consideration of the overlaps between such work and the aesthetic practices of the Black Lives Matter movement.Art after Occupy, McKee suggests, contains great potentials of imagination and action for a renewed left project that are still only beginning to ripen, at once shaking up and taking flight from the art system as we know it.Trade ReviewThis irrepressibly vibrant page-turner is the first art historical reading of Occupy Wall Street, and a canny account of politically engaged art before, during and after the events of 2011. I'm tempted to call it the sequel to Artificial Hells, but this would do a disservice to its enthusiastic approach to activism. No left melancholia here-just a powerful commitment to the liberatory horizon of both progressive art and politics. -- Claire Bishop, author of Artificial Hells: Participatory Art and the Politics of SpectatorshipStrike Art is, above all, a book of cultural documentation, one that relives the events and "ethical spectacle" of a radical political moment that seems to be giving way, in the usual manner, to a pursuit of electoral success rather than wholesale reform. The art that McKee discusses is often transient by design, produced by collectives or anonymous bodies, and distributed freely or slyly entered into the circulation systems of the culture at large. * Harper's *Strike Art is written by someone who was directly involved in the day-to-day organizing work of [Occupy Wall Street], and who continues to participate in the movement's afterlife. McKee's book is therefore replete with granular information about the ambitious, and sometimes ambiguous, revolt of the 99%, details that other commentators can only address in a second-hand manner. In this sense he aligns his writing with Walter Benjamin's well-known directive that authors become producers with a 'tendentious' tilt towards working class struggles. * E-flux *
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Orion Publishing Co Stick it to the Man: Protest Stickers
Book SynopsisThis timely sticker book brings together around 200 of the best protest stickers created by artists and activists around the world. Funny, irreverent, bold and poignant, the stickers tackle key issues of acute concern today, including feminism, equality/LGBTQ rights, racism, nationalism, immigration and asylum. Join the protest movement, stickerbomb the world around you and Stick it to the Man!Trade Review"From satirical stickers of tyrants such as Mao, Putin and Assad to a variety of stickers campaigning for environmental causes; this book encompasses a visual style for everyone." -- It’s Nice That"Want to make a political statement, but your graffiti skills aren’t up to scratch? Or perhaps your desk is crying out for cutting-edge art? Then the 'Stick It To The Man! Protest Stickers' book from Stickerbomb is right up your street" -- - Notebook, Sunday Mirror
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Verso Books Springtime: The New Student Rebellions
Book SynopsisThe autumn and winter of 2010 saw an unprecedented wave of student protests across the UK, in response to the coalition government's savage cuts in state funding for higher education, cuts which formed the basis for an ideological attack on the nature of education itself. Involving universities and schools, occupations, sit-ins and demonstrations, these protests spread with remarkable speed. Rather than a series of isolated incidents, they formed part of a growing movement that spans much of the Western world and is now spreading into North Africa. Ever since the Wall Street crash of 2008 there has been increasing social and political turbulence in the heartlands of capital.From the US to Europe, students have been in the vanguard of protest against their governments' harsh austerity measures. Tracing these worldwide protests, this new book explores how the protests spread and how they were organized, through the unprecedented use of social networking media such as Facebook and Twitter. It looks, too, at events on the ground, the demonstrations, and the police tactics: kettling, cavalry charges and violent assault.From Athens to Rome, San Francisco to London and, most recently, Tunis, this new book looks at how the new student protests developed into a strong and challenging movement that demands another way to run the world. Consisting largely of the voices that participated in the struggle, Springtime will become an essential point of reference as the uprising continues.
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Penguin Random House South Africa Winnie Mandela: A Life
Book SynopsisEveryone has an opinion about Winnie Mandela, and usually a strong one. She has been adored, feared and hates more than any other women in South African history. But few people know much about the life behind the headlines, myths and soundbites. This biography takes an in-depth and intimate look at Winnie Mandela's personal and political life, and takes the reader on a remarkable journey of understanding.
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Hawthorn Press Re-Imagining America: Finding Hope in Difficult
Book SynopsisChristopher Schaefer Ph.D. taught international politics and economics at Tufts University and M.I.T. before becoming an organizational development consultant. He co-founded the Waldorf School in Lexington, Mass. and the Centre for Social Development at Emerson College in England as well as Social Ecology Associates, an international consultancy group.He wrote Partnerships of Hope : Building Waldorf School Communities. A grandfather and activist, he calls for a free, equal and mutual society in a new Covenant between the American people and its government that engages both conservatives and progressives
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Aurora Metro Publications Meat Cute
Book SynopsisLena is on a mission to veganise her Tinder dates. Multiple conquests later, Lena finds herself looking for her next victim - but what happens when her life starts to rapidly crumble around her? Meat Cute explores the trials and tribulations of activism and what it means to care in an indifferent world.Trade Review"I laughed out loud and nodded in recognition, but what will stay with me the longest is the compelling argument to change my way of life." - SW Londoner; "It was really well written, topical, and funny. In particular, it really made me think about the animal activist movement and how it affects people." - londonpubtheatres.com; "Meat Cute provides deliciously crafted, beautifully balanced, food for thought." - westendbestfriend.co.uk. "Lucille is an exceptional performer and gives the audience a masterclass in multi-roling. Every character she plays has a different accent, mannerisms, voice and facial expressions." - Lost in Theatre Land;
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Monash University Publishing A Secret Australia: Revealed by the WikiLeaks
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Amberjack Publishing Company Life Detonated: The True Story of a Widow and a
Book Synopsis"A raw, somber emotional journey that concludes with hope and a measure of forgiveness." - Kirkus Reviews The gripping true story of Kathleen Murray, a young mother whose life was changed on September 11, 1976 when her husband, Brian Murray, a NYPD bomb disposal expert, was killed by a terrorist's bomb. It details her childhood in the Bronx, her journey out of poverty with Brian's help, and her own determination to take care of her two young sons after Brian's death. While Kathleen heals, she launches a lawsuit against the city of New York to find out the real reason the bomb exploded, and at the same time begins a relationship through letters with one of the hijackers, Julie Busic. All the while, Kathleen becomes one of the founders of Survivors of the Shield, a group that advocates for and provides support and assistance to the spouses and children of New York City police officers killed in the line of duty.
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Common Notions Abolition and Reconstruction
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Common Notions A Field Guide to Democratized Living
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Belt Publishing Trust the Circle: The Resistance and Resilience
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Worldchangers Media Believe Me
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Tin House Books CLOUD MISSIVES
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Myers Education Press Making Research Public in Troubled Times:
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Myers Education Press Making Research Public in Troubled Times:
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Myers Education Press Student Activism in the Academy: Its Struggles
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Myers Education Press Student Activism in the Academy: Its Struggles
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Myers Education Press Changing Academia Forever: Black Student Leaders
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Myers Education Press Changing Academia Forever: Black Student Leaders
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Rutgers University Press Citizen Power: A Citizen Leadership Manual
Book SynopsisThe Citizens Campaign, co-founded by the author and his wife, Caroline B. Pozycki, offers citizen leadership training and citizen leadership service opportunities for regular citizens. CITIZEN POWER gives all Americans the know how to become no-blame problem solvers and be part of what is emerging as a new model for a citizen driven national public service.Trade Review"The Citizens Campaign Unveils Online Course Empowering Everyone to Take Personal Responsibility for Healing Our Political Divide" * Insider NJ *Table of ContentsCover Title Copyright Contents Dedication Author's Note Acknowledgement Introduction Chapter One. The 4 Power Centers: Prime Decision-Making Arenas of Local Government THE LOCAL GOVERNING BODY (Mayor & Council) and Your Legal Rights to Participate in Decision-Making THE SCHOOL BOARD and Your Legal Rights to Participate in Decision-Making THE PLANNING BOARD and Your Legal Rights to Participate in Decision-Making THE LOCAL POLITICAL PARTY and Your Legal Rights to Participate in Decision-Making Chapter Two. Citizen Power in the 21st Century Expanded citizen problem solving power through advances in technology Expanded citizen rights to participate in government decision-making Accessing current policy details (OPRA-the Open Public Records Act) Introducing your solutions OPMA-the Open Public Meetings Act Chapter Three. The Power of Practical Solutions: The 3 principles of pragmatic problem solving Solutions should be based on evidence of success Solutions should be cost-effective Solutions should be beneficial to the community as a whole Chapter Four. The Power of the No-Blame Approach Chapter Five. Using the Strategy of no Blame Problem Solving Identifying Your Issue and Finding Solutions Adapting Your Solution to Make It "Doable" Presenting Your Solution For Adoption Respectful Pursuit to Implementation of Your Solution Chapter Six. The No-Blame Problem Solving Guide The Key Steps Chapter Seven. Media Literacy in the Search For Solutions Chapter Eight. Powerful Roles for Citizen Problem Solvers Serving as a Civic Trustee Serving as a Solutions Advocate Serving in an Appointed Government Office Serving as a Neighborhood Political Party Representative Chapter Nine. The Civic Trust Civic Trusts. A Great Opportunity to Serve your Community and your Country Note to Non Citizens About the Author Civic Trustee Handbook Back Cover
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Rutgers University Press Activist Media: Documenting Movements and
Book SynopsisNow more than ever, activists are using media to document injustice and promote social and political change. Yet with so many media platforms available, activists sometimes fail to have a coherent media and communication strategy. Drawing from his experiences as a documentary filmmaker with Black Lives Matter 5280 and Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 105 in Denver, Colorado, Gino Canella argues that activist media create opportunities for activists to navigate conflict and embrace their political and ideological differences. Canella details how activist media practices—interviewing organizers, script writing, video editing, posting on social media, and hosting community screenings—foster solidarity among grassroots organizers. Informed by media theory, this book explores how activists are using media to mobilize supporters, communicate their values, and reject anti-union rhetoric. Furthermore, it demonstrates how collaborative media projects can help activists build broad-based coalitions and amplify their vision for a more equitable and just society. Trade Review"Activist Media is an exemplary piece of activist scholarship. With detail, Gino Canella considers how media co-creation as scholarly political work both uplifts and deconstructs representations, research methods, and human relations between scholars and activists creating “grassroots epistemologies” and “radical sociability” from which we can all learn. The book serves as a great how-to for scholars and activists alike." -- Alexandra Juhasz * Distinguished Professor of Film, Brooklyn College, CUNY *"Drawing on firsthand experience as an activist filmmaker, Canella has written an invaluable account of grassroots empowerment and social change. This book provides an essential analysis for scholars of media activism and for anyone who believes we can and must fight for a better world." -- Victor Pickard * author of Democracy Without Journalism *"Activist Media is an exemplary piece of activist scholarship. With detail, Gino Canella considers how media co-creation as scholarly political work both uplifts and deconstructs representations, research methods, and human relations between scholars and activists creating “grassroots epistemologies” and “radical sociability” from which we can all learn. The book serves as a great how-to for scholars and activists alike." -- Alexandra Juhasz * Distinguished Professor of Film, Brooklyn College, CUNY *"Drawing on firsthand experience as an activist filmmaker, Canella has written an invaluable account of grassroots empowerment and social change. This book provides an essential analysis for scholars of media activism and for anyone who believes we can and must fight for a better world." -- Victor Pickard * author of Democracy Without Journalism *Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Activist Media, Power, and Networked Publics2 Movements and Media: Structures and Evolution3 Pre-production: Embracing Confrontation and Difference4 Production: Scripting Solidarity and Radical Storytelling5 Post-production: Distribution, Exhibition, and ImpactConclusionAppendixAcknowledgmentsNotesReferencesIndex
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Rutgers University Press Activist Media: Documenting Movements and
Book SynopsisNow more than ever, activists are using media to document injustice and promote social and political change. Yet with so many media platforms available, activists sometimes fail to have a coherent media and communication strategy. Drawing from his experiences as a documentary filmmaker with Black Lives Matter 5280 and Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 105 in Denver, Colorado, Gino Canella argues that activist media create opportunities for activists to navigate conflict and embrace their political and ideological differences. Canella details how activist media practices—interviewing organizers, script writing, video editing, posting on social media, and hosting community screenings—foster solidarity among grassroots organizers. Informed by media theory, this book explores how activists are using media to mobilize supporters, communicate their values, and reject anti-union rhetoric. Furthermore, it demonstrates how collaborative media projects can help activists build broad-based coalitions and amplify their vision for a more equitable and just society. Trade Review"Activist Media is an exemplary piece of activist scholarship. With detail, Gino Canella considers how media co-creation as scholarly political work both uplifts and deconstructs representations, research methods, and human relations between scholars and activists creating “grassroots epistemologies” and “radical sociability” from which we can all learn. The book serves as a great how-to for scholars and activists alike."— Alexandra Juhasz, Distinguished Professor of Film, Brooklyn College, CUNY "Drawing on firsthand experience as an activist filmmaker, Canella has written an invaluable account of grassroots empowerment and social change. This book provides an essential analysis for scholars of media activism and for anyone who believes we can and must fight for a better world." — Victor Pickard, author of Democracy Without Journalism "Drawing on firsthand experience as an activist filmmaker, Canella has written an invaluable account of grassroots empowerment and social change. This book provides an essential analysis for scholars of media activism and for anyone who believes we can and must fight for a better world." — Victor Pickard, author of Democracy Without Journalism "Activist Media is an exemplary piece of activist scholarship. With detail, Gino Canella considers how media co-creation as scholarly political work both uplifts and deconstructs representations, research methods, and human relations between scholars and activists creating “grassroots epistemologies” and “radical sociability” from which we can all learn. The book serves as a great how-to for scholars and activists alike."— Alexandra Juhasz, Distinguished Professor of Film, Brooklyn College, CUNYTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 Activist Media, Power, and Networked Publics 2 Movements and Media: Structures and Evolution 3 Pre-production: Embracing Confrontation and Difference 4 Production: Scripting Solidarity and Radical Storytelling 5 Post-production: Distribution, Exhibition, and Impact Conclusion Appendix Acknowledgments Notes References Index
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Rutgers University Press Citizen Power: A Citizen Leadership Manual, New
Book SynopsisThe Citizens Campaign, co-founded by the author and his wife, Caroline B. Pozycki, offers citizen leadership training and citizen leadership service opportunities for regular citizens. CITIZEN POWER gives all Americans the know how to become no-blame problem solvers and be part of what is emerging as a new model for a citizen driven national public service.Citizen Power portal (https://thecitizenscampaign.org/register/).Trade Review“CITIZEN POWER provides proven, practical guidelines for how Americans from all backgrounds can work together on common problems. In this age of polarization that paralyzes us in facing our most severe challenges, nothing is needed more.” -- Rogers M. Smith * Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Political Science University of Pennsylvania Past President, American Political Science Association *“By teaching citizens to be informed participants in government problem solving and giving all citizens the opportunity for public service, The Citizens Campaign is laying the foundation for a new chapter in American democracy.” -- Thomas H. Kean, Sr. * Former Governor, State of New Jersey and Chairman, 9/11 Commission *“CITIZEN POWER provides proven, practical guidelines for how Americans from all backgrounds can work together on common problems. In this age of polarization that paralyzes us in facing our most severe challenges, nothing is needed more.” -- Rogers M. Smith * Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Political Science University of Pennsylvania Past P *“By teaching citizens to be informed participants in government problem solving and giving all citizens the opportunity for public service, The Citizens Campaign is laying the foundation for a new chapter in American democracy.” -- Thomas H. Kean, Sr. * Former Governor, State of New Jersey and Chairman, 9/11 Commission *
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Allen & Unwin One of Them
Book Synopsis''Shaneel is not like anyone you have ever met. An absolute must-read.'' - Ruby TuiWhat would you do if you were told by the people you loved the most that the way you were born was evil and wrong?For Shaneel Lal, this was their reality from the time they were five. Growing up in a tiny, traditional village in Fiji, Shaneel always knew they were different. Still, for the first years of their life, it was idyllic - playing dress-ups in saris with their sister, and hiding under their neighbour''s house, playing games with dolls.But from the time Shaneel started school, they faced condemnation from their family, and then ''therapy'' from conservative elders in their village. The elders tried to ''free'' Shaneel from the evil spirits they thought were making them queer. Shaneel was kept away from the girls to stop Shaneel from becoming more feminine, and from the boys to stop Shaneel''s queerness from spreading to them. Eventually the ''therapy'' escalated to beatings and torture.After escaping Fiji and moving to New Zealand as a teenager, Shaneel tried to keep their sexuality - and gender - to themself, but gradually found the courage to come out.One day, while Shaneel was volunteering at Auckland''s Middlemore hospital, a church leader came up to them and offered to ''pray the gay away''. It was a lightbulb moment for Shaneel, who could not believe that the same practices that had scarred their childhood in Fiji were operating - and legal - in New Zealand.Determined to ensure others wouldn''t have to go through what happened to them, Shaneel founded the Conversion Therapy Action Group, which lead the movement to ban conversion therapy in Aotearoa. In 2022, thanks to Shaneel and other activists'' work, New Zealand banned conversion therapy.This is a story of one person''s fight for the right to live their life as they deserved - and their extraordinary work to protect other young New Zealanders.
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Permanent Files RADICAL MEDIA ARCHIVE VOL.01
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Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft Chinese Foundations and Grassroots Social
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NIAS Press Campaigning in Europe for a Free Indonesia:
Book SynopsisOffering important new understandings of the Indonesian independence struggle, this fine-grained study explores the international activities in the capitals of interwar Europe of the Perhimpoenan Indonesia (PI), an Indonesian nationalist student organisation based in the Netherlands. Operating in a vibrant political environment, the PI interacted with different anticolonial movements in cities across Europe. Focusing on the period between 1917 and 1931, the book follows the personal journeys of different students to cities such as Zurich, Paris, Brussels and Berlin as they established contacts, joined associations and attended international conferences. Here, the complex reality of movement building is examined, going beyond superficial suggestions of contact and collaboration. The study shows that the activities of the PI reverberated in the Indonesian political landscape, where the new collaborations in Europe were followed with great interest. In this way, the book offers new findings for multiple audiences - Indonesianists and scholars of anticolonial resistance alike. However, it also demonstrates that the political awakening of Indonesian elites should be understood not just as an indigenous response to Dutch rule but also as part of global anticolonial movements and struggles.Trade ReviewKlaas Stutje’s monograph is a pioneering contribution to global history from below. It interprets the origins of Indonesian nationalism and anti-colonialism in a radically new way. Stutje shows that Indonesian anticolonial activists in Europe were part of an emerging global network, and deliberately connected to members of other anticolonial movements. This highly original book may be the beginning of a new approach to the study of anticolonialism worldwide. (Marcel van der Linden, University of Amsterdam)
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NIAS Press Waves of Upheaval in Myanmar: Gendered
Book SynopsisThis is the first comprehensive account of the multifaceted processes of gendered transformation that took place in Myanmar between 2011 and 2021, and which continues to shape events today. The period began with the end of direct military rule and the transition to a hybrid, semi-democratic regime, precipitating far-reaching political, economic and social changes across Myanmar. To date, the gendered dynamics and effects of this transition have not yet received sustained scholarly attention. Remedying this gap, this book provides a much-needed historical corrective through a careful, nuanced analysis of the gendered dynamics of transitional politics, institutions and policymaking; feminist resistance, mobilization, and movement building; and their effects on labor, land, and everyday lives. Although the February 2021 military coup brought an end to this decade of experimentation and transition, in the richness of its analysis and detail, the book offers a deeper understanding of the current political situation in Myanmar. The gendered changes that the transition brought about have shaped both the current configuration of masculinized, military dictatorship, as well as the unprecedented role played by women in resistance to military rule after the 2021 coup. This analysis of the gendered dynamics and effects of the recent decade of political transition in Myanmar is therefore critical for understanding current events, as well as the ways in which Myanmar’s political landscape might continue to be reshaped.
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Nordic Academic Press Knowledge Actors: Revisiting Agency in the
Book SynopsisHistorical actors are as central to the history of knowledge as to all historical scholarship. Every country, every era has its biographies of eminent scientists, intellectuals, and educational reformers. Yet the theoretical currents that have left their mark on the historical and sociological studies of knowledge since the 1960s have emphasized structures over actors, collectives over individuals. By contrast, Knowledge Actors stresses the importance of historical actors and re-engages with their actions from fresh perspectives. The objective of this volume is thus to foster a larger discussion among historians of knowledge about the role of knowledge actors. Do we want individuals and networks to take centre stage in our research narratives? And if so, which ones do we want to highlight and how are we to conduct our research? What are the potential pitfalls of pursuing that actor-centric trajectory? This the third volume in a trilogy about the history of knowledge from the Lund Centre for the History of Knowledge (LUCK).
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Independently Published Free South Africa: The Columbia University Divestment Movement: A Personal Perspective
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MO - University of Illinois Press A New Path
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