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
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• Dimensions: .36" h x 5.58" w x 8.50" l, .29 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 128 pages

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
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• Binding: Paperback
• 120 pages

Hopes and Prospects

Hopes and Prospects
Noam Chomsky (Author)
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In this urgent new book, Noam Chomsky surveys the dangers and prospects of our early twenty-first century. Exploring challenges such as the growing gap between North and South, American exceptionalism (including under President Barack Obama), the fiascos of Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S.-Israeli assault on Gaza, and the recent financial bailouts, he also sees hope for the future and a way to move forwardAin the democratic wave in Latin America and in the global solidarity movements that suggest "real progress toward freedom and justice."

Hopes and Prospects is essential reading for anyone who is concerned about the primary challenges still facing the human race.

"This is a classic Chomsky work: a bonfire of myths and lies, sophistries and delusions. Noam Chomsky is an enduring inspiration all over the worldAto millions, I suspectAfor the simple reason that he is a truth-teller on an epic scale. I salute him." AJohn Pilger

"In dissecting the rhetoric and logic of American empire and class domination, at home and abroad, Chomsky continues a longstanding and crucial work of elucidation and activism...the writing remains unswervingly rational and principled throughout, and lends bracing impetus to the real alternatives before us." APublisher's Weekly

"Chomsky’s commentary is razor sharp and offers a compendium of facts that make a well-supportedAand undoubtedly controversialAclaim of the incongruity between US actions and the democratic ideals it professes....A valuable resource for both academics and everyday concerned citizens." AForeWord

Professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Noam Chomsky is widely regarded to be one of the foremost critics of U.S. foreign policy in the world. He has published numerous groundbreaking books, articles, and essays on global politics, history, and linguistics. Among his recent books are The New York Times bestsellers Hegemony or Survival and Failed States.

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• Published on: 2010-06-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 8.43" h x .87" w x 5.63" l, .96 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 336 pages

Profit Over People: Neoliberalism & Global Order

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Profit Over People: Neoliberalism & Global Order
by Noam Chomsky, Robert W. McChesney
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Why is the Atlantic slowly filling with crude petroleum, threatening a millions-of-years-old ecological balance? Why did traders at prominent banks take high-risk gambles with the money entrusted to them by hundreds of thousands of clients around the world, expanding and leveraging their investments to the point that failure led to a global financial crisis that left millions of people jobless and hundreds of cities economically devastated? Why would the world's most powerful military spend ten years fighting an enemy that presents no direct threat to secure resources for corporations?
The culprit in all cases is neoliberal ideology—the belief in the supremacy of "free" markets to drive and govern human affairs. And in the years since the initial publication of Noam Chomsky's Profit Over People: Neoliberalism and Global Order, the bitter vines of neoliberalism have only twisted themselves further into the world economy, obliterating the public’s voice in public affairs and substituting the bottom line in place of people’s basic obligation to care for one another as ends in themselves. In Profit Over People, Chomsky reveals the roots of the present crisis, tracing the history of neoliberalism through an incisive analysis of free trade agreements of the 1990s, the World Trade Organization, and the International Monetary Fund—and describes the movements of resistance to the increasing interference by the private sector in global affairs.
In the years since the initial publication of Profit Over People, the stakes have only risen. Now more than ever, Profit Over People is one of the key texts explaining how the crisis facing us operates—and how, through Chomsky’s analysis of resistance, we may find an escape from the closing net.

• Rank: #55399 in Books
• Published on: 1999
• Released on: 2011-09-06
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 7.80" h x .47" w x 5.08" l, .36 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 288 pages