The Struggle Within: Prisons, Political Prisoners, and Mass Movements in the United States

The Struggle Within: Prisons, Political Prisoners, and Mass Movements in the United States
Dan Berger (Author), dream hampton (Afterword), Ruth Wilson Gilmore (Foreword)

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An accessible yet wide-ranging historical primer, The Struggle Within discusses how mass imprisonment has been a state-sponsered tool of repression deployed against diverse, left-wing social movements over the last 50 years. Author Dan Berger goes on to examine some of the most dynamic social movements across half a century, including black liberation, Puerto Rican independence, Native American sovereignty, Chicano radicalism, white antiracist and working-class mobilizations, pacifist and antinuclear campaigns, earth liberation, and animal rights. Berger’s encyclopedic knowledge of social movements in the United States provides a rich comparative history of numerous campaigns that continue to shape contemporary politics. The book also offers a little-heard voice in contemporary critiques of mass incarceration by investigation how mass incarcerations have occurred within a slew of social movements that have provided steep challenges to state power.

• Rank: #34670 in Books
• Published on: 2014-04-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .36" h x 5.58" w x 8.50" l, .29 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 128 pages

Glenn Beck's The American Crisis

Glenn Beck's The American Crisis
Glenn Beck (Author)

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Human Rights

• Rank: #79955 in Books
• Published on: 2014-06-01
• Released on: 2014-06-01
• Formats: Audiobook, Unabridged
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 4
• Running time: 18000 seconds
• Binding: Audio CD

Uprising: How Wisconsin Renewed the Politics of Protest, from Madison to Wall Street

Uprising: How Wisconsin Renewed the Politics of Protest, from Madison to Wall Street
John Nichols (Author)
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The protest movement that captivated the nation and paved the path for Occupy Wall Street. More than 100,000 public employees, teachers, students, and their allies descended on the capital in Madison, Wisconsin after Governor Scott Walker announced his plan to eliminate the right of public sector employees to unionize. The struggle (and the Democratic caucus’ escape to Indiana in order to prevent a quorum from being reached) elicited extensive national media coverage and debateAas well as enormous grassroots support for protestors. Uprising provides an anatomy of the event and its implications for the political future of the nation. As state legislatures across the US (in Ohio and New Hampshire, to name a few) take up union busting measures, Nichols shows how the Wisconsin case is a blueprint for progressives around America who’ve had enough. He also explores how Wisconsin protesters organized and inspired the Occupy Wall Street movement.

• Rank: #515297 in Books
• Published on: 2012-02-14
• Format: Bargain Price
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 208 pages

Free Market Fairness

Free Market Fairness
John Tomasi (Author)
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Can libertarians care about social justice? In Free Market Fairness, John Tomasi argues that they can and should. Drawing simultaneously on moral insights from defenders of economic liberty such as F. A. Hayek and advocates of social justice such as John Rawls, Tomasi presents a new theory of liberal justice. This theory, free market fairness, is committed to both limited government and the material betterment of the poor. Unlike traditional libertarians, Tomasi argues that property rights are best defended not in terms of self-ownership or economic efficiency but as requirements of democratic legitimacy. At the same time, he encourages egalitarians concerned about social justice to listen more sympathetically to the claims ordinary citizens make about the importance of private economic liberty in their daily lives. In place of the familiar social democratic interpretations of social justice, Tomasi offers a "market democratic" conception of social justice: free market fairness. Tomasi argues that free market fairness, with its twin commitment to economic liberty and a fair distribution of goods and opportunities, is a morally superior account of liberal justice. Free market fairness is also a distinctively American ideal. It extends the notion, prominent in America's founding period, that protection of property and promotion of real opportunity are indivisible goals. Indeed, according to Tomasi, free market fairness is social justice, American style.

Provocative and vigorously argued, Free Market Fairness offers a bold new way of thinking about politics, economics, and justice--one that will challenge readers on both the left and right.

• Rank: #137504 in Books
• Published on: 2013-05-05
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 384 pages