Helen Suzman: Bright Star in a Dark Chamber

Helen Suzman: Bright Star in a Dark Chamber
Robin Renwick (Author)

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Human Rights

'The task of all who believe in multiracialism in this country is to survive. Quite inevitably time is on our side...' Helen Suzman was the voice of South Africa's conscience during the darkest days of apartheid. She stood alone in parliament, confronted by a legion of highly chauvinist male politicians. Armed with the relentless determination and biting wit for which she became renowned, Suzman battled the racist regime and earned her reputation as a legendary anti-apartheid campaigner. Despite constant antagonism and the threat of violence, she forced into the global spotlight the injustices of the country's minority rule. Access to Suzman's papers, including her unpublished correspondence with Nelson Mandela, was granted by her family to the author, former British ambassador to South Africa Robin Renwick, who has penned a book rich with examples of her humour and political brilliance. This first full biography goes beyond her famous struggle against apartheid into her criticisms of the post-apartheid government. It is a fascinating insight into the life of a truly great South African and her role in one of the most important struggles in modern history.

• Rank: #54961 in Books
• Published on: 2014-01-10
• Binding: Hardcover
• 256 pages

Cairo: Images of Transition: Perspectives on Visuality in Egypt, 2011-2013 (Urban Studies)

Cairo: Images of Transition: Perspectives on Visuality in Egypt, 2011-us.html13 (Urban Studies)
Mikala Dal (Editor)

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Human Rights

What aesthetic structures, representational codes, and conventions are at play in transitory Egypt? Which are broken? How is democracy envisioned? How did January 25 change the relationship between citizens, public space, and visual expression? What politics are at play when history manifests as image?

Cairo: Images of Transition offers a broad range of artistic and academic works that examine the relationship between aesthetics and politics in the wake of the Egyptian revolution of January 25, 2011. With an emphasis on the political processes of 2011-us.html12, we trace the shifting status of the image as a communicative tool, a witness to history, and an active agent for change.

• Rank: #119898 in Books
• Published on: 2014-01-14
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: 10.75" h x 9.25" w x .75" l, 2.55 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 286 pages

A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power

A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power
Jimmy Carter (Author)

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Human Rights

The world’s discrimination and violence against women and girls is the most serious, pervasive, and ignored violation of basic human rights: This is President Jimmy Carter’s call to action.

President Carter was encouraged to write this book by a wide coalition of leaders of all faiths. His urgent report is current. It covers the plight of women and girls—strangled at birth, forced to suffer servitude, child marriage, genital cutting, deprived of equal opportunity in wealthier nations and “owned” by men in others. And the most vulnerable, along with their children, are trapped in war and violence.

He addresses the adverse impact of distorted religious texts on women, by Protestants, Catholics, Jews, and Muslims. Special verses are often omitted or quoted out of context to exalt the status of men and exclude women. In a remark that is certain to get attention, Carter points out that women are treated more equally in some countries that are atheistic or where governments are strictly separated from religion.

Carter describes his personal observations of the conditions and hardships of women around the world. He describes a trip in Africa with Bill Gates, Sr. and his wife, where they are appalled by visits to enormous brothels. He tells how he joined Nelson Mandela to plead for an end to South Africa’s practice of outlawing treatments to protect babies from AIDS-infected mothers.

Throughout, Carter reports on observations of women activists and workers of The Carter Center. This is an informed and passionate charge about human rights abuses against half the world’s population. It comes from one of the world’s most renowned human rights advocates.

• Rank: #160262 in Books
• Published on: 2014-03-25
• Released on: 2014-03-25
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
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• Binding: Hardcover
• 224 pages

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
Ishmael Beah (Author)
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Human Rights

This is how wars are fought now: by children, hopped-up on drugs and wielding AK-47s. Children have become soldiers of choice. In the more than fifty conflicts going on worldwide, it is estimated that there are some 300,000 child soldiers. Ishmael Beah used to be one of them.

• Rank: #430 in Books
• Brand: Sarah Crichton Books
• Published on: 2008-08-05
• Released on: 2008-08-05
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 8.27" h x 5.75" w x .63" l, .50 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 229 pages

From Sovereign to Serf: Government by the Treachery and Deception of Words

From Sovereign to Serf: Government by the Treachery and Deception of Words
Roger S Sayles (Author), Kristi Kirk (Cover Design)

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Human Rights

From Sovereign to Serf, by Roger S. Sayles, demonstrates the history and the laws from which the American people have unwittingly, but voluntarily, placed themselves in a status of servitude to the federal government.

• Rank: #643435 in Books
• Published on: 2013-10-14
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .52" h x 5.98" w x 9.02" l, .74 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 248 pages

The Winter We Danced: Voices from the Past, the Future, and the Idle No More Movement

The Winter We Danced: Voices from the Past, the Future, and the Idle No More Movement
Kino-nda-niimi Collective (Editor)

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Human Rights

The Winter We Danced is a vivid collection of writing, poetry, lyrics, art and images from the many diverse voices that make up the past, present, and future of the Idle No More movement. Calling for pathways into healthy, just, equitable and sustainable communities while drawing on a wide-ranging body of narratives, journalism, editorials and creative pieces, this collection consolidates some of the most powerful, creative and insightful moments from the winter we danced and gestures towards next steps in an on-going movement for justice and Indigenous self-determination.

• Rank: #212460 in Books
• Published on: 2014-03
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
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• Binding: Paperback
• 366 pages

Words Will Break Cement: The Passion of Pussy Riot

Words Will Break Cement: The Passion of Pussy Riot
Masha Gessen (Author)
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Human Rights

The Gulag Archipelago Volume 3: An Experiment in Literary Investigation

The Gulag Archipelago Volume 3: An Experiment in Literary Investigation
Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn (Author)
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Human Rights

Volume 3 of the gripping epic masterpiece, Solzhenitsyn's moving account of resistance within the Soviet labor camps and his own release after eight years

• Rank: #517594 in Books
• Published on: 2007-08-07
• Released on: 2007-08-07
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 1.11" h x 5.56" w x 7.92" l, 1.04 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 608 pages

A Force More Powerful: A Century of Non-Violent Conflict

A Force More Powerful: A Century of Non-Violent Conflict
Peter Ackerman (Author), Jack DuVall (Author)
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Human Rights

This nationally-acclaimed book shows how popular movements used nonviolent action to overthrow dictators, obstruct military invaders and secure human rights in country after country, over the past century. Peter Ackerman and Jack DuVall depict how nonviolent sanctions--such as protests, strikes and boycotts--separate brutal regimes from their means of control. They tell inside stories--how Danes outmaneuvered the Nazis, Solidarity defeated Polish communism, and mass action removed a Chilean dictator--and also how nonviolent power is changing the world today, from Burma to Serbia.

• Rank: #59224 in Books
• Published on: 2001-10-05
• Number of discs: 2
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 9.02" h x 6.02" w x 1.54" l, 1.35 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 560 pages

• Trade paperback

Sex Workers Unite: A History of the Movement from Stonewall to SlutWalk

Sex Workers Unite: A History of the Movement from Stonewall to SlutWalk
Melinda Chateauvert (Author)

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Human Rights

A provocative history that reveals how sex workers have been at the vanguard of social justice movements for the past fifty years while building a movement of their own that challenges our ideas about labor, sexuality, feminism, and freedom
 
Documenting five decades of sex-worker activism, Sex Workers Unite is a fresh history that places prostitutes, hustlers, escorts, call girls, strippers, and porn stars in the center of America’s major civil rights struggles. Although their presence has largely been ignored and obscured, in this provocative history Melinda Chateauvert recasts sex workers as savvy political organizers—not as helpless victims in need of rescue.
 
Even before transgender sex worker Sylvia Rivera threw a brick and sparked the Stonewall Riot in 1969, these trailblazing activists and allies challenged criminal sex laws and “whorephobia,” and were active in struggles for gay liberation, women’s rights, reproductive justice, union organizing, and prison abolition.
 
Although the multibillion-dollar international sex industry thrives, the United States remains one of the few industrialized nations that continues to criminalize prostitution, and these discriminatory laws put workers at risk. In response, sex workers have organized to improve their working conditions and to challenge police and structural violence. Through individual confrontations and collective campaigns, they have pushed the boundaries of conventional organizing, called for decriminalization, and have reframed sex workers’ rights as human rights.
 
Telling stories of sex workers, from the frontlines of the 1970s sex wars to the modern-day streets of SlutWalk, Chateauvert illuminates an underrepresented movement, introducing skilled activists who have organized a global campaign for self-determination and sexual freedom that is as multifaceted as the sex industry and as diverse as human sexuality. 

• Rank: #107133 in Books
• Published on: 2014-01-07
• Released on: 2014-01-07
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .0" h x .0" w x .0" l, 1.19 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 272 pages

Rwanda and the New Scramble for Africa: From Tragedy to Useful Imperial Fiction

Rwanda and the New Scramble for Africa: From Tragedy to Useful Imperial Fiction
Robin Philpot (Author)

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Human Rights

Former UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali declared to author Robin Philpot that “the Rwandan Genocide was 100 percent American responsiblity.” Yet a more official narrative would have it that horrible Hutu génocidaires planned and executed a satanic scheme to eliminate nearly one million Tutsis after the Rwandan presidential plane crashed in the heart of dark Africa on April 6, 1994. Where do these two contradictory narratives come from? Which is true? Robin Philpot’s vast and methodical research, extensive interviews, and close analysis of events, testimony in courts, and popular writings on the subject show not only that that official narrative is false, but that it was edified to cover up the causes of the tragedy and to protect the criminals responsible for it. What’s more, to make that story more believable, the storytellers have unfailingly reproduced the literary traditions, clichés, and metaphors that provided the underpinnings of slavery, the slave-trade, and colonialism. Nearly 20 years later, the facts about the Rwandan tragedy have been so distorted and the adjudicated facts ignored that Rwanda is now used everywhere to justify so-called humanitarian intervention throughout Africa (and the world). It has become a “useful imperial fiction,” and for that reason, this book seeks to find out what really happened there.

• Rank: #214849 in Books
• Published on: 2013-12-us.html
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .0" h x .0" w x .0" l, .95 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 250 pages

Reclaiming American Virtue: The Human Rights Revolution of the 1970s

Reclaiming American Virtue: The Human Rights Revolution of the 1970s
Barbara J. Keys (Author)

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Human Rights

The American commitment to international human rights emerged in the 1970s not as a logical outgrowth of American idealism but as a surprising response to national trauma, as Barbara Keys shows in this provocative history. Reclaiming American Virtue situates this novel enthusiasm as a reaction to the profound challenge of the Vietnam War and its tumultuous aftermath. Instead of looking inward for renewal, Americans on the right and the left alike looked outward for ways to restore America's moral leadership.

Conservatives took up the language of Soviet dissidents to resuscitate a Cold War narrative that pitted a virtuous United States against the evils of communism. Liberals sought moral cleansing by dissociating the United States from foreign malefactors, spotlighting abuses such as torture in Chile, South Korea, and other right-wing allies. When Jimmy Carter in 1977 made human rights a central tenet of American foreign policy, his administration struggled to reconcile these conflicting visions.

Yet liberals and conservatives both saw human rights as a way of moving from guilt to pride. Less a critique of American power than a rehabilitation of it, human rights functioned for Americans as a sleight of hand that occluded from view much of America's recent past and confined the lessons of Vietnam to narrow parameters. It would be a small step from world's judge to world's policeman, and American intervention in the name of human rights would be a cause both liberals and conservatives could embrace.

• Rank: #209921 in Books
• Published on: 2014-02-17
• Released on: 2014-02-03
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
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• Binding: Hardcover
• 368 pages

Republican Party Animal: The "Bad Boy of Holocaust History" Blows the Lid Off Hollywood's Secret Right-Wing Underground

Republican Party Animal: The "Bad Boy of Holocaust History" Blows the Lid Off Hollywood's Secret Right-Wing Underground
David Cole (Author)

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Human Rights

"David Stein brought right-wing congressmen, celebrities, writers and entertainment industry figures together for shindigs, closed to outsiders. . . . There was just one problem. Stein was not who he claimed."—The Guardian

In 2013, Republican "hero" David Stein made international headlines when he was unmasked as David Cole, the notorious Jewish Holocaust denier who made an entirely different set of headlines in the 1990s with his videos from within the gates of Auschwitz and his appearances on shows like 60 Minutes and Donahue.

After a $25,000 bounty was put on his head by a violent extremist group, Cole left behind the bizarre world of Holocaust revisionism, a landscape populated by Hitler fetishists who Cole himself detested. Then, David Stein the Republican organizer was born.

Stein soon became a major force in the closed-door world of Hollywood right-wingers—people who felt as alienated from the mainstream of their profession as Cole had felt as the lone Jewish Holocaust revisionist. Soon enough, Stein was working with major GOP power players and far-right Hollywood A-listers, creating huge private events for the West Coast GOP elite . . . until it all came crashing down when a vengeful former girlfriend outed him publicly.

Condemned by those who had previously lauded him, Cole was left with nothing but his story. And here he tells it, warts and all, including the first-ever exposé of the secretive Hollywood far-right underground, "Friends of Abe."

• Rank: #135461 in Books
• Published on: 2014-05-13
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
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• Binding: Paperback
• 320 pages

Pilgrim At The Crossroads of Human Trafficking; releasing captives on today's underground railroad

Pilgrim At The Crossroads of Human Trafficking; releasing captives on today's underground railroad
Abdiya Wesab (Author)
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Human Rights

Pilgrim At The Crossroads of Human Trafficking takes you into the lives and miracles of women and children being rescued from sex slavery and abuse in some unlikely corners of the world. Each individual rescued is unique; yet the network and warmth that springs up between them is heartening. Although the reality is stark, the solutions show potential, rather than disaster, throwing light and hope into certain darkness. Pilgrim gives food for thought, and releases each of us to recognize how simply we can each step into this monstrous current event and slay the giant of human trafficking with the small stones we find in our own slingshots.

• Rank: #111505 in eBooks
• Published on: 2013-12-16
• Released on: 2013-12-16
• Format: Kindle eBook

Border Patrol Nation: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Homeland Security (City Lights Open Media)

Border Patrol Nation: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Homeland Security (City Lights Open Media)
Todd Miller (Author)

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Human Rights

"[Miller] offers a vision of what the military-industrial complex looks like once it's transported, jobs and all, to the US–Mexican border and turned into a consumer mall for the post-9/11 era . . . [it's] a striking and original picture."--Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch

"What Jeremy Scahill was to Blackwater, Todd Miller is to the U.S. Border Patrol!"--Tom Miller, author, On the Border: Portraits of America's Southwestern Frontier

"Todd Miller has entered a secret world, and he has gone deep. If you want to learn about the Border Patrol's world, you will find this book informative and startling. I'm not sure the Border Patrol will like all that he has to say. But his is a moral work that wrestles with a huge story. Powerful."--Luis Alberto Urrea, author of The Devil's Highway: A True Story, among other books

Armed authorities watch from a military-grade surveillance tower as lines of people stream toward the security checkpoint, tickets in hand, anxious and excited to get through the gate. Few seem to notice or care that the US Border Patrol is monitoring the Super Bowl, as they have for years, one of the many ways that forces created to police the borders are now being used, in an increasingly militarized fashion, to survey and monitor the whole of American society.

In fast-paced prose, Todd Miller sounds an alarm as he chronicles the changing landscape. Traveling the country—and beyond—to speak with the people most involved with and impacted by the Border Patrol, he combines these first-hand encounters with careful research to expose a vast and booming industry for high-end technology, weapons, surveillance, and prisons. While politicians and corporations reap substantial profits, the experiences of millions of men, women, and children point to staggering humanitarian consequences. Border Patrol Nation shows us in stark relief how the entire country has become a militarized border zone, with consequences that affect us all.

Todd Miller has worked on US border issues for over fifteen years. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Mother Jones, the Nation, TomDispatch, the Huffington Post, Al-Jazeera English, Common Dreams, and many others.

• Rank: #200593 in Books
• Published on: 2014-03-18
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 7.99" h x 5.24" w x .0" l, .0 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

A New Deal for the World: America's Vision for Human Rights

A New Deal for the World: America's Vision for Human Rights
Elizabeth Borgwardt (Author)
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Human Rights

In a work of sweeping scope and luminous detail, Elizabeth Borgwardt describes how a cadre of World War II American planners inaugurated the ideas and institutions that underlie our modern international human rights regime.

Borgwardt finds the key in the 1941 Atlantic Charter and its Anglo-American vision of "war and peace aims." In attempting to globalize what U.S. planners heralded as domestic New Deal ideas about security, the ideology of the Atlantic Charter--buttressed by FDR's "Four Freedoms" and the legacies of World War I--redefined human rights and America's vision for the world.

Three sets of international negotiations brought the Atlantic Charter blueprint to life--Bretton Woods, the United Nations, and the Nuremberg trials. These new institutions set up mechanisms to stabilize the international economy, promote collective security, and implement new thinking about international justice. The design of these institutions served as a concrete articulation of U.S. national interests, even as they emphasized the importance of working with allies to achieve common goals. The American architects of these charters were attempting to redefine the idea of security in the international sphere. To varying degrees, these institutions and the debates surrounding them set the foundations for the world we know today.

By analyzing the interaction of ideas, individuals, and institutions that transformed American foreign policy--and Americans' view of themselves--Borgwardt illuminates the broader history of modern human rights, trade and the global economy, collective security, and international law. This book captures a lost vision of the American role in the world.

• Rank: #274807 in Books
• Brand: Brand:
• Published on: 2007-09-30
• Released on: 2007-10-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 8.82" h x 5.83" w x 1.18" l, 1.42 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 480 pages

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The Question

The Question
Henri Alleg (Author), Ellen Ray (Foreword), James D. Le Sueur (Introduction), Jean-Paul Sartre (Preface), John Calder (Translator)
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Human Rights

Henri Alleg’s candid account of how the French Army brutally tortured him in Algeria first appeared in 1958. Although quickly banned by the French government, it was widely read and remains a classic and powerful indictment of torture.

“The lesson of this book... is that we are all on the edge of savagery and if we begin to slip over that edge, we fall fast and far.” — D. W. Brogan, The New York Times

“Written with spare and simple candor, the book is much more than a scalding footnote to fever-hot headlines. The Question does not stop with the Algerian question but goes on to ask: What does it mean to be a human being? It tells of the shame and glory of man.” — Time

“In his modest, unassuming and precise fashion, Alleg is describing a triumph of the human spirit... The importance of Alleg’s book extends far beyond Algeria and France. For this is what can happen anywhere; what does happen in many parts of the world and what could happen here. There is nothing ‘inhuman’ about it. It is too, too human. To hush it up, to deny it for any reason whatever is to be an accomplice of the torturers...” — Scotsman

“[A] noble and in a sense ennobling book, the dominant impression it leaves is one of a progressive and finally an almost total degradation, a degradation both of persons — except for the tortured, the outlawed — and of social institutions. The Question is far more than an account of atrocities, however spectacular.” — The Nation

• Rank: #145120 in eBooks
• Published on: 2013-12-15
• Released on: 2013-12-15
• Format: Kindle eBook

Masters of Mankind: Essays and Lectures, 1969-2013

Masters of Mankind: Essays and Lectures, 1969-us.html13
Noam Chomsky (Author), Marcus Raskin (Introduction)

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Human Rights

Praise for Noam Chomsky's Hopes and Prospects:

"A revelation. . . . This is a book woven through with hope and awe at all the people who slip beyond imperial control and establish real democracy . . . a treasure-trove."—The Independent

In this collection of essays from 1969 to 2013, many in book form for the first time, Noam Chomsky examines the nature of state power, from the ideologies driving the Cold War to the War on Terror, and reintroduces the moral and legal questions that all too often go unheeded. With unrelenting logic, he holds the arguments of empire up to critical examination and shatters the myths of those who protect the power and privilege of the few against the interests and needs of the many. A new introduction by Marcus Raskin contextualizes Chomsky's place among some of the most influential thinkers of modern history.

Noam Chomsky is Institute Professor in the department of linguistics and philosophy at MIT. His work is widely credited with having revolutionized the field of modern linguistics. He is the author of numerous best-selling political works, which have been translated into scores of countries worldwide. His most recent books include the New York Times bestseller Hegemony or Survival, Failed States, Power Systems, Occupy, and Hopes and Prospects.

Marcus Raskin, co-founder of the Institute for Policy Studies and professor of public policy at George Washington University, is a social critic, activist, and philosopher.

• Rank: #214368 in Books
• Published on: 2014-05-06
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
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• Binding: Paperback
• 200 pages