Abolition Democracy: Beyond Empire, Prisons, and Torture (Open Media Series)

Abolition Democracy: Beyond Empire, Prisons, and Torture (Open Media Series)
Angela Y. Davis (Author)
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Human Rights

Revelations about U.S policies and practices of torture and abuse have captured headlines ever since the breaking of the Abu Ghraib prison story in April 2004. Since then, a debate has raged regarding what is and what is not acceptable behavior for the world’s leading democracy. It is within this context that Angela Davis, one of America’s most remarkable political figures, gave a series of interviews to discuss resistance and law, institutional sexual coercion, politics and prison. Davis talks about her own incarceration, as well as her experiences as "enemy of the state," and about having been put on the FBI’s "most wanted" list. She talks about the crucial role that international activism played in her case and the case of many other political prisoners.
Throughout these interviews, Davis returns to her critique of a democracy that has been compromised by its racist origins and institutions. Discussing the most recent disclosures about the disavowed "chain of command," and the formal reports by the Red Cross and Human Rights Watch denouncing U.S. violation of human rights and the laws of war in Guantánamo, Afghanistan and Iraq, Davis focuses on the underpinnings of prison regimes in the United States.

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• Published on: 2005-10-04
• Released on: 2005-10-04
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 7.01" h x .51" w x 5.00" l, .20 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 132 pages

State of Exception

State of Exception
Giorgio Agamben (Author), Kevin Attell (Translator)
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Two months after the attacks of 9/11, the Bush administration, in the midst of what it perceived to be a state of emergency, authorized the indefinite detention of noncitizens suspected of terrorist activities and their subsequent trials by a military commission. Here, distinguished Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben uses such circumstances to argue that this unusual extension of power, or "state of exception," has historically been an underexamined and powerful strategy that has the potential to transform democracies into totalitarian states.

The sequel to Agamben's Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life, State of Exception is the first book to theorize the state of exception in historical and philosophical context. In Agamben's view, the majority of legal scholars and policymakers in Europe as well as the United States have wrongly rejected the necessity of such a theory, claiming instead that the state of exception is a pragmatic question. Agamben argues here that the state of exception, which was meant to be a provisional measure, became in the course of the twentieth century a normal paradigm of government. Writing nothing less than the history of the state of exception in its various national contexts throughout Western Europe and the United States, Agamben uses the work of Carl Schmitt as a foil for his reflections as well as that of Derrida, Benjamin, and Arendt.

In this highly topical book, Agamben ultimately arrives at original ideas about the future of democracy and casts a new light on the hidden relationship that ties law to violence.

• Rank: #150140 in Books
• Published on: 2005-01-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .34" h x 5.54" w x 8.48" l, .35 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 104 pages

Free the Copts: From Ancient Glory to Modern Oppression

Free the Copts: From Ancient Glory to Modern Oppression
The Australian Coptic Movement Association (Author), Ramy Tadros (Editor)

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On 1 January 2011, a bomb blast outside a Coptic church in the Egyptian city of Alexandria kills dozens of Copts attending New Year services. Media outlets from around the world replay footage of the carnage. Threats are made against Copts worldwide. Angered, anguished, and defiant, Egypt's besieged Copts flood the streets and clash with police in Alexandria and Cairo.

Twenty-five days later on 25 January 2011, Egypt's revolution begins and the events, once again, capture the international community's attention. But this time the world watches with inspiration, as the Egyptian people seek to topple a dictatorship.

Free the Copts provides a fresh perspective on Egypt's Copts, their culture, and their struggle against discrimination and persecution. Various politicians, journalists, academics, clergy, and activists from around the globe have contributed a range of articles to make this compilation a valuable resource about the Copts and their future in a changing Egypt.

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• Published on: 2013-06-12
• Released on: 2013-06-12
• Format: Kindle eBook
• Number of items: 1

Passionate Justice: A Progressive Memoir in Essays

Passionate Justice: A Progressive Memoir in Essays
Jonathan Wolfman (Author)
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Writing essays on social justice has been my daily passion and full-time work since 2008. To date, I've published roughly 1,500 pieces which have received excellent, helpful criticism from a group of longstanding, dear friends and from a consistent readership of fellow writers, first at Open Salon and subsequently at Our Salon. Some pieces have appeared on other sites, such as Talking Writing, Does This Make Sense, Pal Talk News, The Jewish Reporter, Punchnel's, Beguile, Castle Gay Guide, and A World of Progress. In early 2013, I began posting pieces readers have told me are their favorites every few months at the Daily Kos. Because this book is a personal memoir that draws on social history, it reflects both general social history and my own. I respond in my writing to world and national events that have worked their way into my personal and professional life and informed my values and worldview. I've found that historical events and the justice inherent in them (or the lack thereof) continually resonate in the present. ~Jonathan Wolfman

• Rank: #87553 in Books
• Published on: 2013-06-10
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 226 pages

So Damn Much Money: The Triumph of Lobbying and the Corrosion of American Government (Vintage)

So Damn Much Money: The Triumph of Lobbying and the Corrosion of American Government (Vintage)
Robert G. Kaiser (Author)
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With a New Foreword

In So Damn Much Money, veteran Washington Post editor and correspondent Robert Kaiser gives a detailed account of how the boom in political lobbying since the 1970s has shaped American politics by empowering special interests, undermining effective legislation, and discouraging the country’s best citizens from serving in office. Kaiser traces this dramatic change in our political system through the colorful story of Gerald S. J. Cassidy, one of Washington’s most successful lobbyists. Superbly told, it’s an illuminating dissection of a political system badly in need of reform.

• Rank: #34828 in Books
• Published on: 2010-02-09
• Released on: 2010-02-09
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 8.00" h x .90" w x 5.17" l, .88 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 432 pages

Genocide and Mass Atrocities in Asia: Legacies and Prevention (Routledge Contemporary Asia Series)

Genocide and Mass Atrocities in Asia: Legacies and Prevention (Routledge Contemporary Asia Series)
Deborah Mayersen (Editor), Annie Pohlman (Editor)

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The Citizen Lobbyist: A How-to Manual for Making Your Voice Heard in Government

The Citizen Lobbyist: A How-to Manual for Making Your Voice Heard in Government
Amanda Knief (Author), Rev. Barry W. Lynn (Foreword)

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More citizen involvement is needed in our government processes to ensure the voices of the people are heard over the money of paid lobbyists, unions, and coalitions, both in Washington, DC, and in state capitals across the country. Too often our public officials seem removed from the people who hired them to be their representatives and fail to work on their behalf. The Citizen Lobbyist is a handbook for anyone who wants to learn about how to be active in local, state, and federal government and have a voice in creating public policy. It gives a step-by-step plan on how to lobby elected officials about whatever issues you care about, offers information on how to plan a lobbying meeting for individuals and groups, and provides sample lobbying worksheets and resources to assist with finding legislative information and history. The Citizen Lobbyist is your go-to reference for being a grassroots activist and citizen lobbyist.

• Rank: #76292 in Books
• Published on: 2013-07-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .0" h x .0" w x .0" l, .25 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 120 pages

So Damn Much Money

So Damn Much Money
Robert G. Kaiser (Author)
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With a New Foreword

In So Damn Much Money, veteran Washington Post editor and correspondent Robert Kaiser gives a detailed account of how the boom in political lobbying since the 1970s has shaped American politics by empowering special interests, undermining effective legislation, and discouraging the country’s best citizens from serving in office. Kaiser traces this dramatic change in our political system through the colorful story of Gerald S. J. Cassidy, one of Washington’s most successful lobbyists. Superbly told, it’s an illuminating dissection of a political system badly in need of reform.


From the Trade Paperback edition.

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• Published on: 2009-01-us.html
• Released on: 2009-01-us.html
• Format: Kindle eBook
• Number of items: 1

Death by Government

Death by Government
R. J. Rummel (Author)
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This is R. J. Rummel's fourth book in a series devoted to genocide and government mass murder, or what he calls democide. He presents the primary results, in tables and figures, as well as a historical sketch of the major cases of democide, those in which one million or more people were killed by a regime. In Death by Government, Rummel does not aim to describe democide itself, but to determine its nature and scope in order to test the theory that democracies are inherently nonviolent.

Rummel discusses genocide in China, Nazi Germany, Japan, Cambodia, Turkey, Yugoslavia, Poland, the Soviet Union, and Pakistan. He also writes about areas of suspected genocide: North Korea, Mexico, and feudal Russia. His results clearly and decisively show that democracies commit less democide than other regimes. The underlying principle is that the less freedom people have, the greater the violence; the more freedom, the less the violence. Thus, as Rummel says, “The problem is power. The solution is democracy. The course of action is to foster freedom.”

Death by Government is a compelling look at the horrors that occur in modern societies. It depicts how democide has been very much a part of human history. Among other examples, the book includes the massacre of Europeans during the Thirty Years' War, the relatively unknown genocide of the French Revolution, and the slaughtering of American Indians by colonists in the New World. This riveting account is an essential tool for historians, political scientists, and scholars interested in the study of genocide.

• Rank: #149901 in Books
• Published on: 1997-01-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 9.25" h x 6.26" w x 1.30" l, 1.82 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 496 pages

Millennial Momentum: How a New Generation Is Remaking America

Millennial Momentum: How a New Generation Is Remaking America
Mr. Morley Winograd (Author), Mr. Michael D. Hais (Author)
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About every eight decades, coincident with the most stressful and perilous events in U.S. history—the Revolutionary and Civil Wars and the Great Depression and World War II—a new, positive, accomplished, and group-oriented “civic generation” emerges to change the course of history and remake America. The Millennial Generation (born 1982–2003) is America’s newest civic generation.

In their 2008 book, Millennial Makeover, Morley Winograd and Michael D. Hais made a prescient argument that the Millennial Generation would change American politics for good. Later that year, a huge surge of participation from young voters helped to launch Barack Obama into the White House.

Now, in Millennial Momentum, Winograd and Hais investigate how the beliefs and practices of the Millennials are transforming other areas of American culture, from education to entertainment, from the workplace to the home, and from business to politics and government. The Millennials’ cooperative ethic and can-do spirit have only just begun to make their mark, and are likely to continue to reshape American values for decades to come.

Drawing from an impressive array of demographic data, popular texts, and personal interviews, the authors show how the ethnically diverse, socially tolerant, and technologically fluent Millennials can help guide the United States to retain its leadership of the world community and the global marketplace. They also illustrate why this generation’s unique blend of civic idealism and savvy pragmatism will enable us to overcome the internal culture wars and institutional malaise currently plaguing the country. Millennial Momentum offers a message of hope for a deeply divided nation.

• Rank: #61959 in Books
• Published on: 2011-09-01
• Released on: 2011-08-29
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 9.02" h x .98" w x 5.98" l, 1.01 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 296 pages

In Our Defense: The Bill of Rights in Action

In Our Defense: The Bill of Rights in Action
Ellen Alderman (Author), Caroline Kennedy (Author)
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We The People

The Bill of Rights defines and defends the freedoms we enjoy as Americans -- from the right to bear arms to the right to a civil jury. Using the dramatic true stories of people whose lives have been deeply affected by such issues as the death penalty and the right to privacy, attorneys Ellen Alderman and Caroline Kennedy reveal how the majestic priciples of the Bill of Rights have taken shape in the lives of ordinary people, as well as the historic and legal significance of each amendment. In doing so, they shed brilliant new light on this visionary document, which remains as vital and as controversial today as it was when a great nation was newly born.

• Rank: #14640 in Books
• Published on: 1992-03-01
• Released on: 1992-03-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 8.03" h x 1.06" w x 5.31" l, .74 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 432 pages

Glenn Beck's The American Crisis: An Urgent Message About the Coming Times That Will Try Men's Souls

Glenn Beck's The American Crisis: An Urgent Message About the Coming Times That Will Try Men's Souls
Glenn Beck (Author)

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A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader.

• Rank: #61286 in eBooks
• Published on: 2014-06-01
• Released on: 2014-06-01
• Number of items: 1

How Obama Betrayed America....And No One Is Holding HIm Accountable

How Obama Betrayed America....And No One Is Holding HIm Accountable
David Horowitz (Author)
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Human Rights

Lying about the reasons that an ambassador and three other Americans were murdered in Benghazi on 9/11/12—jihadi terror, not some trivial internet video was to blame—is only one of many indications that Barack Obama does not take the threats facing America seriously, and indeed, may think that the U.S. is so guilty for past transgressions that it deserves to be chastened on the world stage. As David Horowitz shows in this no holds barred pamphlet, minimizing the Islamist threat to the United States is not an oversight of the Obama administration; it is policy. The most dangerous Islamist regime, Iran, is being allowed to acquire nuclear weapons while Washington dithers over pointless negotiations and stands by as the mullahs fill the vacuum in Iraq created by the withdrawal of all American forces, against the advice of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. In Afghanistan, supposedly the "good war," victory is not an option; the Taliban licks its chops and waits for American troops to leave in ignominy. Meanwhile, this White House has facilitated the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood throughout the Middle East, helping it come to power in Cairo, bankrolling it and giving it F-16s that are likely someday to be used against Israel, and displayed weakness in Syria by ignoring "red lines" it said would never be crossed. It is a low point for America, as David Horowitz shows, with Republicans, traditionally the party of strong national security, offering only an echo, not a choice in American foreign policy, watching in a state of policy paralysis as Obama appeases our enemies and enables their evil ambitions.

• Rank: #16579 in eBooks
• Published on: 2013-05-29
• Released on: 2013-05-29
• Format: Kindle eBook
• Number of items: 1

The Devil's Garden: A War Crimes Investigator's Story

The Devil's Garden: A War Crimes Investigator's Story
John R. Cencich (Author)

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Human Rights

In 2002 John Cencich traveled to a safe house in Belgrade to interview the former head of a Yugoslav secret intelligence agency. In less than an hour, Cencich had what he needed: corroboration of information provided by another spy. This evidence would be used against Slobodan Miloševic in his war crimes trial at The Hague. For the veteran United Nations war crimes investigator, however, the mission was business as usual.

The Devil’s Garden is the inside story of the investigation and indictment of Slobodan Miloševic and the identification of fifteen coperpetrators in the joint criminal enterprise (JCE) that had resulted in the massacre of thousands of civilians. As the senior American investigator at The Hague, Cencich drew up the investigative plan, codeveloped the prosecution theory of the JCE, and wrote the first significant draft of the indictment. He also led the international team of police investigators, detectives, and special agents on the case against Miloševic and his inner circle of secret police, assassins, spies, terrorists, underworld figures, and murderous paramilitary leaders for crimes committed throughout Croatia.

Here, readers will travel alongside Cencich as he journeys to The Hague and will see how these once-in-a-lifetime experiences affect him to this day. Detailing one of the largest international criminal investigations ever undertaken, this book is a unique blend of history, international law, and true crime in Europe’s deadliest battles since World War II.

• Rank: #77179 in Books
• Published on: 2013-06
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
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• Binding: Hardcover
• 264 pages

What Do You Buy the Children of the Terrorist who Tried to Kill Your Wife: A Memoir

What Do You Buy the Children of the Terrorist who Tried to Kill Your Wife?: A Memoir
David Harris-Gershon (Author)

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Human Rights

The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century

The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century
Grace Lee Boggs (Author), Scott Kurashige (Author), Danny Glover (Foreword)
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A world dominated by America and driven by cheap oil, easy credit, and conspicuous consumption is unraveling before our eyes. In this powerful, deeply humanistic book, Grace Lee Boggs, a legendary figure in the struggle for justice in America, shrewdly assesses the current crisis--political, economical, and environmental--and shows how to create the radical social change we need to confront new realities. A vibrant, inspirational force, Boggs has participated in all of the twentieth century's major social movements--for civil rights, women's rights, workers' rights, and more. She draws from seven decades of activist experience, and a rigorous commitment to critical thinking, to redefine "revolution" for our times. From her home in Detroit, she reveals how hope and creativity are overcoming despair and decay within the most devastated urban communities. Her book is a manifesto for creating alternative modes of work, politics, and human interaction that will collectively constitute the next American Revolution.

• Rank: #286675 in Books
• Published on: 2012-05-31
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 8.27" h x .63" w x 5.35" l, .63 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

Voices from the Plain of Jars: Life under an Air War (New Perspectives in Se Asian Studies)

Voices from the Plain of Jars: Life under an Air War (New Perspectives in Se Asian Studies)
Fred Branfman (Editor), Alfred W. McCoy (Foreword)
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During the Vietnam War the United States government waged a massive, secret air war in neighboring Laos. Two million tons of bombs were dropped on one million people. Fred Branfman, an educational advisor living in Laos at the time, interviewed over 1,000 Laotian survivors. Shocked by what he heard and saw, he urged them to record their experiences in essays, poems, and pictures. Voices from the Plain of Jars was the result of that effort.
    When first published in 1972, this book was instrumental in exposing the bombing. In this expanded edition, Branfman follows the story forward in time, describing the hardships that Laotians faced after the war when they returned to find their farm fields littered with cluster munitions—explosives that continue to maim and kill today.

• Rank: #178908 in Books
• Published on: 2013-05-31
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 8.11" h x .51" w x 5.39" l, .50 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 196 pages

Seeking the Beloved Community: A Feminist Race Reader (Suny Series, Philosophy and Race)

Seeking the Beloved Community: A Feminist Race Reader (Suny Series, Philosophy and Race)
Joy James (Author), Beverly Guy-Sheftall (Foreword)

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Human Rights

• Rank: #114818 in Books
• Published on: 2013-05
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 9.02" h x 1.18" w x 5.98" l, 1.45 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 340 pages