Sunday, March 31, 2013

The Country Under My Skin: A Memoir of Love and War

The Country Under My Skin
The Country Under My Skin: A Memoir of Love and War
Gioconda Belli (Author)
4.1 out of 5 stars(23)

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Human Rights

An electrifying memoir from the acclaimed Nicaraguan writer (“A wonderfully free and original talent”—Harold Pinter) and central figure in the Sandinista Revolution.

Until her early twenties, Gioconda Belli inhabited an upper-class cocoon: sheltered from the poverty in Managua in a world of country clubs and debutante balls; educated abroad; early marriage and motherhood. But in 1970, everything changed. Her growing dissatisfaction with domestic life, and a blossoming awareness of the social inequities in Nicaragua, led her to join the Sandinistas, then a burgeoning but still hidden organization. She would be involved with them over the next twenty years at the highest, and often most dangerous, levels.

Her memoir is both a revelatory insider’s account of the Revolution and a vivid, intensely felt story about coming of age under extraordinary circumstances. Belli writes with both striking lyricism and candor about her personal and political lives: about her family, her children, the men in her life; about her poetry; about the dichotomies between her birth-right and the life she chose for herself; about the failures and triumphs of the Revolution; about her current life, divided between California (with her American husband and their children) and Nicaragua; and about her sustained and sustaining passion for her country and its people.


From the Hardcover edition.

  • Rank: #36287 in Books
  • Published on: 2003-10-14
  • Released on: 2003-10-14
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Dimensions: 7.99" h x .82" w x 5.13" l, .81 pounds
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 400 pages

Friday, March 29, 2013

The Persistent Power of Human Rights (Cambridge Studies in International Relations, 126)

The Persistent
The Persistent Power of Human Rights (Cambridge Studies in International Relations, 126)
Thomas Risse (Editor), Stephen C. Ropp (Editor), Kathryn Sikkink (Editor)

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Human Rights

The Power of Human Rights (published in 1999) was an innovative and influential contribution to the study of international human rights. At its center was a 'spiral model' of human rights change which described the various socialization processes through which international norms were internalized into the domestic practices of various authoritarian states during the Cold War years. The Persistent Power of Human Rights builds on these insights, extending its reach and analysis. It updates our understanding of the various causal mechanisms and conditions which produce behavioural compliance, and expands the range of rights-violating actors examined to include democratic and authoritarian Great Powers, corporations, guerrilla groups, and private actors. Using a unique blend of quantitative and qualitative research and theory, this book yields not only important new academic insights but also a host of useful lessons for policy-makers and practitioners.

  • Rank: #70406 in eBooks
  • Published on: 2013-02-28
  • Released on: 2013-02-27
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Thursday, March 28, 2013

Walking with the Comrades

Walking with
Walking with the Comrades
Arundhati Roy (Author)
4.1 out of 5 stars(8)

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Human Rights

From the award-winning author of The God of Small Things comes a searing frontline exposé of brutal repression in India

In her latest book, internationally renowned author Arundhati Roy draws on her unprecedented access to a little-known rebel movement in India to pen a work full of earth-shattering revelations. Deep in the forests, under the pretense of battling Maoist guerillas, the Indian government is waging a vicious total war against its own citizens-a war undocumented by a weak domestic press and fostered by corporations eager to exploit the rare minerals buried in tribal lands. Roy takes readers to the unseen front lines of this ongoing battle, chronicling her months spent living with the rebel guerillas in the forests. In documenting their local struggles, Roy addresses the much larger question of whether global capitalism will tolerate any societies existing outside of its colossal control.

  • Rank: #41578 in Books
  • Published on: 2011-10-25
  • Released on: 2011-10-25
  • Original language: English
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  • Dimensions: .80" h x 5.50" w x 7.40" l, .40 pounds
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 240 pages

Wednesday, March 27, 2013

The Little School: Tales of Disappearance and Survival

The Little School
The Little School: Tales of Disappearance and Survival
Alicia Partnoy (Author), Julia Alvarez (Preface)
4.6 out of 5 stars(28)

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Human Rights

One of Argentina's 30,000 "disappeared", Alicia Partnoy was abducted from her home by secret police and taken to a concentration camp where she was tortured, and where most of the other prisoners were killed. Smuggled out and published anonymously, THE LITTLE SCHOOL is Partnoy's memoir of her disappearance and imprisonment.

  • Rank: #50861 in Books
  • Published on: 1998-09-03
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Dimensions: 8.62" h x 5.67" w x .0" l, .43 pounds
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 136 pages

Tuesday, March 26, 2013

European Court of Human Rights: Domestic Implementation, Legal Mobilization, and Policy Change

European Court of Human Rights
European Court of Human Rights: Domestic Implementation, Legal Mobilization, and Policy Change
Dia Anagnostou (Author)

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Human Rights

One of the most remarkable characteristics of the European Court of Human Rights and its highly acclaimed judicial tribunal in Strasbourg is the extensive obligations of contracting states to give effect to its judgments.

This text relates how marginalized individuals, civil society, and minority actors strategically take recourse in the Strasbourg court for the purpose of challenging state laws, policies, and practices. Scholarly literature has so far failed to investigate thoroughly these bottom-up dynamics and their influence on the domestic implementation of human rights.

  • Rank: #121152 in Books
  • Published on: 2013-05-01
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • 298 pages

Monday, March 25, 2013

The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide

The Blood Telegram
The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide
Gary J. Bass (Author)

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Human Rights
  • Rank: #107509 in Books
  • Published on: 2013-09-24
  • Released on: 2013-09-24
  • Format: Deckle Edge
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Dimensions: 2.00 pounds
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • 528 pages

Sunday, March 24, 2013

Rules for Radicals Defeated: A Practical Guide for Defeating Obama / Alinsky Tactics

Rules for Radicals Defeated
Rules for Radicals Defeated: A Practical Guide for Defeating Obama / Alinsky Tactics
Jeff Hedgpeth (Author)
4.2 out of 5 stars(19)

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Human Rights

This book provides a practical guidebook for those seeking to understand and defeat the Alinsky tactics used by the Obama Administration, Occupy Wall Street, and other far-Left organizations.

  • Rank: #17606 in eBooks
  • Published on: 2012-05-04
  • Released on: 2012-05-04
  • Format: Kindle eBook
  • Number of items: 1

Saturday, March 23, 2013

The Fierce Urgency of Now: Improvisation, Rights, and the Ethics of Co-creation (Improvisation Community and So)

The Fierce Urgency of Now
The Fierce Urgency of Now: Improvisation, Rights, and the Ethics of Co-creation (Improvisation Community and So)
Daniel Fischlin (Author), Ajay Heble (Author), George Lipsitz (Author)

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Human Rights

The Fierce Urgency of Now links musical improvisation to struggles for social change, focusing on the connections between the improvisation associated with jazz and the dynamics of human rights struggles and discourses. The authors acknowledge that at first glance improvisation and rights seem to belong to incommensurable areas of human endeavor. Improvisation connotes practices that are spontaneous, personal, local, immediate, expressive, ephemeral, and even accidental, while rights refer to formal standards of acceptable human conduct, rules that are permanent, impersonal, universal, abstract, and inflexible. Yet the authors not only suggest that improvisation and rights can be connected. They insist that they must be connected.

Improvisation is the creation and development of new, unexpected, and productive co-creative relations among people. It cultivates the capacity to discern elements of possibility, potential, hope, and promise where none are readily apparent. Improvisers work with the tools they have in the arenas that are open to them. Proceeding without a written score or script, they collaborate to envision and enact something new, to enrich their experience in the world by acting on it and changing it. By analyzing the dynamics of particular artistic improvisations, mostly by contemporary American jazz musicians, the authors reveal improvisation as a viable and urgently needed model for social change. In the process, they rethink politics, music, and the connections between them.
  • Rank: #102538 in Books
  • Published on: 2013-06-07
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 328 pages

THE CHRISTIAN AND HIS GUN -- THE BIBLICAL PERSPECTIVE (Bible Studies Series #9 - Self Publishing Innovations)

THE CHRISTIAN
THE CHRISTIAN AND HIS GUN -- THE BIBLICAL PERSPECTIVE (Bible Studies Series #9 - Self Publishing Innovations)
Gary L. Grizzell (Author)

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Human Rights

Masked men break into your home at 2am while you and your family are sleeping. What will you do? The issue at hand is the question, does God authorize a Christian to bear arms (or any other means) in the matter of self protection? Man's law must never seek to prohibit the exercise of God-given rights. If and when it does so, it is not with God's approval (2 John 9-11; Matthew 28:18). Gun regulation, protection of school children and the issue of personal self-protection are subjects highlighted daily in the USA (and even world) news. Contributing facts to the debate, Executive Vice President and CEO of the National Rifle Association, Wayne LaPierre, boldly upholds the second amendment of our USA Constitution and informs us that, "Already, more than 23,000 schools have armed guards and in all 50 states, government officials, local authorities and school districts are considering their own initiatives to protect schools with armed security -- because when it comes to keeping our kids safe at school, nothing else matters."

  • Rank: #73469 in eBooks
  • Published on: 2013-03-06
  • Released on: 2013-03-06
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Thursday, March 21, 2013

The Case Against Israel (Counterpunch)

The Case
The Case Against Israel (Counterpunch)
Michael Neumann (Author)
3.2 out of 5 stars(57)

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Human Rights

The Case Against Israelargues that Zionism was responsible for the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians and that Israel is responsible for its perpetuation. The argument rests on widely accepted factual claims and impeccable sources. It avoids rhetoric and gratuitous moralizing. There is no attempt to blacken Israel through association with colonialism, imperialism, or racism. Instead, Neumann’s argument emphasizes the fateful Zionist quest for Jewish sovereignty in Palestine. This quest—not the massacres or plans for transfer or other blots on Zionist history—made violence inevitable and compromise impossible. The prospect of Zionists gaining the power of life and death over all inhabitants of Palestine had to be seen by the Palestinians as a mortal threat. They responded accordingly.

The tragic consequences of the quest for sovereignty did not follow all at once, but in two stages. The Zionists established a sovereign Jewish state in 1948. Had they been content with that, peace might have followed the 1967 war, when Israel could have backed the creation of a Palestinian state in the occupied territories. Instead, Zionists pushed to extend Jewish sovereignty, this time through the settler movement. The settlements were a renewed mortal threat to the Palestinians and once again necessitated a violent response. The only solution is for Israel to withdraw, unilaterally, to its 1948 borders.

Michael Neumann was born in 1946, the son of German Jewish refugees. He graduated from Columbia University with degrees in European history and English literature, followed by a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Toronto. He teaches moral and political philosophy at a Canadian university. He has written What’s Left?, a critique of 1960s radicalism, and numerous articles relating to the Israel/Palestine conflict. His academic work includes The Rule of Law: Politicizing Ethics as well as articles on utilitarianism, rationality, and rights.

  • Rank: #480662 in Books
  • Published on: 2005-02-01
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Dimensions: 7.48" h x .59" w x 5.00" l, .60 pounds
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 200 pages

Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Generation Palestine: Voices from the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement

Generation Palestine
Generation Palestine: Voices from the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement
Rich Wiles (Author, Editor), Archbishop Desmond Tutu (Contributor)

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Human Rights

The unique model of apartheid, colonisation and military occupation that Israel imposes on the Palestinians, along with myriad violations of international law, have made Palestine the moral cause of a generation. Yet many people continue to ask, ‘what can we do?’

Generation Palestine helps to answer this question by bringing together Palestinian and international activists in the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement. The movement aims to pressure Israel until it complies with International Law, mirroring the model that was successfully utilised against South African apartheid.

With essays written by a wide selection of contributors, Generation Palestine follows the BDS movement’s model of inclusivity and collaboration. Contributors include Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Ken Loach, Iain Banks, Ronnie Kasrils, Professor Richard Falk, Ilan Pappe, Omar Barghouti, Ramzy Baroud and Archbishop Attallah Hannah, alongside other internationally acclaimed artists, writers, academics and grassroots activists.

  • Rank: #50270 in eBooks
  • Published on: 2013-03-06
  • Released on: 2013-03-06
  • Format: Kindle eBook
  • Number of items: 1

Making Human Rights a Reality

Making Human
Making Human Rights a Reality
Emilie M. Hafner-Burton (Author)

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Human Rights

In the last six decades, one of the most striking developments in international law is the emergence of a massive body of legal norms and procedures aimed at protecting human rights. In many countries, though, there is little relationship between international law and the actual protection of human rights on the ground. Making Human Rights a Reality takes a fresh look at why it's been so hard for international law to have much impact in parts of the world where human rights are most at risk.

Emilie Hafner-Burton argues that more progress is possible if human rights promoters work strategically with the group of states that have dedicated resources to human rights protection. These human rights "stewards" can focus their resources on places where the tangible benefits to human rights are greatest. Success will require setting priorities as well as engaging local stakeholders such as nongovernmental organizations and national human rights institutions.

To date, promoters of international human rights law have relied too heavily on setting universal goals and procedures and not enough on assessing what actually works and setting priorities. Hafner-Burton illustrates how, with a different strategy, human rights stewards can make international law more effective and also safeguard human rights for more of the world population.

  • Rank: #196275 in Books
  • Published on: 2013-03-24
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
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  • Binding: Paperback
  • 296 pages

Monday, March 18, 2013

After Hope and Change: The 2012 Elections and American Politics

After Hope and Change
After Hope and Change: The 2012 Elections and American Politics
James W. Ceaser (Author), Andrew E. Busch (Author), John J., Jr. Pitney (Author)

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Human Rights

As they have every four years since 1992, James W. Ceaser and Andrew E. Busch—joined in 2008 by John J. Pitney Jr.—once again provide the most comprehensive and authoritative account of the national election, including the presidential nomination process and election and congressional elections. As always Ceaser, Busch, and Pitney combine a concise account of the elections as well as its broader context for American politics and institutions..

The 2012 election was the culmination of the most expensive campaign battle in the history of politics. President Obama and challenger Mitt Romney fought a grueling ground-war for the hearts and minds of American voters, but there was far more that went into determining the outcome of this election than two men on stage. Demographic shifts, the skyward rise of social media's political relevance and shocking developments on shores both foreign and domestic ultimately led Barack Obama back to the White House for a second term as President, leaving people around the world anxiously wondering what might lie ahead for America after hope and change.

Previous books in the series
Epic Journey:
The 2008 Elections and American Politics
Red Over Blue
: The 2004 Elections and American Politics
The Perfect Tie:
The True Story of the 2000 Presidential Election
Losing to Win:
The 1996 Elections and American Politics
Upside Down and Inside Out:
The 1992 Elections and American Politics





  • Rank: #79414 in Books
  • Published on: 2013-03-16
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
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  • Binding: Paperback
  • 200 pages

Trafficking in Persons Report 2012 Central African Republic

Trafficking in
Trafficking in Persons Report 2012 Central African Republic
US Department of State (Author)

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Human Rights

The United States’ commitment to fighting modern slavery did not simply materialize 12 years ago with the passage of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (INCLUDED) or the adoption the same year of the U.N. Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children (Palermo Protocol). This country’s tragic history is not forgotten, nor are the bloodshed and lives lost in the fight to end state-sanctioned slavery.
This series includes the following items defined…What Is Trafficking In Persons?, The Face of Modern Slavery Sex Trafficking, Child Sex Trafficking, Forced Labor, Bonded Labor Or Debt Bondage, Involuntary Domestic Servitude, Forced Child Labor, and Unlawful Recruitment and Use of Child Soldiers.

Methodology
This Report was prepared using information from U.S. embassies, government officials, nongovernmental and international organizations, published reports, news articles, academic studies, research trips to every region of the world, and information submitted to tipreport@state.gov. This email address provides a means by which organizations and individuals can share information with the Department of State on government progress in addressing trafficking.

Also included besides the Country Report is the Tier Placement
Countries are placed onto one of four tiers, as mandated by the TVPA. This placement is based more on the extent of government action to combat trafficking than on the size of the problem. The analyses are based on the extent of governments’ efforts to reach compliance with the TVPA’s minimum standards for the elimination of human trafficking, which are consistent with the Palermo Protocol.

  • Rank: #102397 in eBooks
  • Published on: 2013-02-23
  • Released on: 2013-02-23
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  • Number of items: 1

Saturday, March 16, 2013

The Benjamin Carson Prayer Breakfast Speech: An Unauthorized Guide to Dr. Ben Carson's Confrontation with President Barack Obama [Article]

The Benjamin Carson Prayer Breakfast Speech
The Benjamin Carson Prayer Breakfast Speech: An Unauthorized Guide to Dr. Ben Carson's Confrontation with President Barack Obama [Article]
K. Jessop (Author)
1.0 out of 5 stars(1)

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Human Rights

This article examines Dr. Benjamin Carson’s controversial speech at the February 2013 Prayer Breakfast. President Barack Obama was in attendance, but that didn’t stop Ben Carson from speaking his mind. The doctor railed against political correctness, progressive taxes, Obamacare, and other core principles of the Obama administration. Was this a one-time event, or has Carson established himself as a new conservative thought leader? [Article: 1,451 words]

  • Rank: #6637 in eBooks
  • Published on: 2013-03-12
  • Released on: 2013-03-12
  • Format: Kindle eBook
  • Number of items: 1

Friday, March 15, 2013

Managing Human Rights at Work: 101 practical tips to prevent human rights disasters

Managing Human Rights at Work
Managing Human Rights at Work: 101 practical tips to prevent human rights disasters
Stephen Hammond (Author)

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Human Rights

If you are a Canadian human resource professional, manager or supervisor, this book and day-to-day tool is for you. It contains practical and common-sense tips and stories related to Canada's workplace human rights issues. Topics include harassment, respectful workplaces, diversity, accommodation, stereotypes, discrimination, disabilities, inclusiveness and male-dominated workplaces. This book will help those in the tricky art of managing people, to understand human rights issues and prevent human rights disasters. In reading each chapter, managers and supervisors can decide if their workplace is in line with the issues it covers: the laws, tribunal or court decisions and overall logic. Many workplaces have bought dozens, hundreds and literally thousands of this book to make sure every one of their supervisors and managers has their own copy. People say, "it's a good read" and "I couldn't put it down to go to sleep" (honestly). Valuable advice for human rights dilemmas at work.

  • Rank: #604939 in Books
  • Published on: 2009-04-02
  • Released on: 2009-04-02
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 160 pages

Thursday, March 14, 2013

The Rise and Fall of Human Rights: Cynicism and Politics in Occupied Palestine (Stanford Studies in Human Rights)

The Rise and Fall of Human Rights
The Rise and Fall of Human Rights: Cynicism and Politics in Occupied Palestine (Stanford Studies in Human Rights)
Lori Allen (Author)

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Human Rights

The Rise and Fall of Human Rights provides a groundbreaking ethnographic investigation of the Palestinian human rights world—its NGOs, activists, and "victims," as well as their politics, training, and discourse—since 1979. Though human rights activity began as a means of struggle against the Israeli occupation, it has since been professionalized and politicized, transformed into a public relations tool for political legitimization and state-making.

In failing to end the Israeli occupation, protect basic human rights, or establish an accountable Palestinian government, the human rights industry has become the object of cynicism for many Palestinians. Lori Allen contends, however, that far from indicating apathy, such cynicism generates a productive critique of domestic politics and Western interventionism. The book's broad appeal lies in illuminating the successes and failures of Palestinians' varied engagements with human rights in their quest for independence.

  • Rank: #164441 in Books
  • Published on: 2013-04-24
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 280 pages

Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Evil Men

Evil Men
Evil Men
James Dawes (Author)

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Human Rights

Presented with accounts of genocide and torture, we ask how people could bring themselves to commit such horrendous acts. A searching meditation on our all-too-human capacity for inhumanity, Evil Men confronts atrocity head-on—how it looks and feels, what motivates it, how it can be stopped.

Drawing on firsthand interviews with convicted war criminals from the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945), James Dawes leads us into the frightening territory where soldiers perpetrated some of the worst crimes imaginable: murder, torture, rape, medical experimentation on living subjects. Transcending conventional reporting and commentary, Dawes’s narrative weaves together unforgettable segments from the interviews with consideration of the troubling issues they raise. Telling the personal story of his journey to Japan, Dawes also lays bare the cultural misunderstandings and ethical compromises that at times called the legitimacy of his entire project into question. For this book is not just about the things war criminals do. It is about what it is like, and what it means, to befriend them.

Do our stories of evil deeds make a difference? Can we depict atrocity without sensational curiosity? Anguished and unflinchingly honest, as eloquent as it is raw and painful, Evil Men asks hard questions about the most disturbing capabilities human beings possess, and acknowledges that these questions may have no comforting answers.

  • Rank: #210338 in Books
  • Published on: 2013-05-06
  • Released on: 2013-04-01
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
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  • Binding: Hardcover
  • 280 pages

Grabbing Power: The New Struggles for Land, Food and Democracy in Northern Honduras

Grabbing Power
Grabbing Power: The New Struggles for Land, Food and Democracy in Northern Honduras
Tanya M Kerssen (Author)

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Human Rights

Grabbing Power explores the history of agribusiness and land conflicts in Northern Honduras focusing on the Aguán Valley, where peasant movements battle large palm oil producers for the right to land. In the wake of a military coup that overthrew Honduran president Manuel Zelaya in June 2009, rural communities in the Aguán have been brutally repressed, with over 60 people killed in just over two years. United States military aid--spent in the name of the War on Drugs--fuels the Honduran government's ability to repress its people. A strong and inspiring movement for land, food and democracy has grown over the last two years, and it shows no sign of backing down.

  • Rank: #115412 in Books
  • Published on: 2013-02-12
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 188 pages

Tuesday, March 12, 2013

The Path to Hope

The Path
The Path to Hope
Stephane Hessel (Author), Edgar Morin (Author)
4.4 out of 5 stars(5)

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Human Rights

A short, incisive political tract that criticizes the culture of finance capitalism and calls for a return to the humanist values of the enlightenment: equality, liberty, freedom as defined in the Declaration of the Rights of Man, a return to community, mutual respect, freedom from poverty, and an end to theocracy and fundamentalism. The authors argue that a return to these values constitutes “a path to hope,” leading the way out of the present worldwide malaise brought on by economic collapse, moral failure, and an ignorance of history.
 
For the authors, 20th-century fascism was no mere abstraction—it was a brutal system brought on by a similar malaise, a system they fought against. This gives their book special urgency.
 
The Path to Hope is written by two esteemed French thinkers—94-year-old Stephane Hessel and 90-year-old Edgar Morin, following on the heels of Hessel’s Indignez-vous! (Time for Outrage!). Both books have become bestsellers in France and throughout Europe. Both have also become foundational documents underpinning the worldwide protest movement of which Occupy Wall Street is the American subset.

  • Rank: #15709 in Books
  • Published on: 2012-04-24
  • Released on: 2012-04-24
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Dimensions: 6.27" h x .46" w x 4.27" l, .25 pounds
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • 112 pages