Still Counting the Dead: Survivors of Sri Lanka's Hidden War

Still Counting the Dead: Survivors of Sri Lanka's Hidden War
Frances Harrison (Author)
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We Are All Born Free Mini Edition: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Pictures

We Are All Born Free Mini Edition: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Pictures
Amnesty International (Author)
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All Things Censored

All Things Censored
Mumia Abu-Jamal (Author), Noelle Hanrahan (Editor), Alice Walker (Foreword)
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On Palestine

On Palestine
Noam Chomsky (Author), Ilan Pappe (Author), Frank Barat (Editor)

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Gaza in Crisis: Reflections on Israel's War Against the Palestinians

Gaza in Crisis: Reflections on Israel's War Against the Palestinians
Noam Chomsky (Author), Ilan Pappe (Author), Frank Barat (Editor)
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Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel, and the Palestinians (Updated Edition)

Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel, and the Palestinians (Updated Edition)
Noam Chomsky (Author), Edward Said (Foreword)

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Pursuing Justice, Second Edition: Traditional and Contemporary Issues in Our Communities and the World

Pursuing Justice, Second Edition: Traditional and Contemporary Issues in Our Communities and the World
Ralph A. Weisheit (Author), Frank Morn (Author)

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Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide

Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
Nicholas D. Kristof (Author), Sheryl WuDunn (Author)
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A Path Appears: Transforming Lives, Creating Opportunity (Random House Large Print)

A Path Appears: Transforming Lives, Creating Opportunity (Random House Large Print)
Nicholas D. Kristof (Author), Sheryl WuDunn (Author)

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A Path Appears: Transforming Lives, Creating Opportunity

A Path Appears: Transforming Lives, Creating Opportunity
Nicholas D. Kristof (Author), Sheryl WuDunn (Author)

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Missing Class: How Seeing Class Cultures Can Strengthen Social Movement Groups

Missing Class: How Seeing Class Cultures Can Strengthen Social Movement Groups
Betsy Leondar-Wright (Author)
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Many activists worry about the same few problems in their groups: low turnout, inactive members, conflicting views on racism, overtalking, and offensive violations of group norms. But in searching for solutions to these predictable and intractable troubles, progressive social movement groups overlook class culture differences. In Missing Class, Betsy Leondar-Wright uses a class-focused lens to show that members with different class life experiences tend to approach these problems differently. This perspective enables readers to envision new solutions that draw on the strengths of all class cultures to form the basis of stronger cross-class and multiracial movements.

The first comprehensive empirical study of US activist class cultures, Missing Class looks at class dynamics in 25 groups that span the gamut of social movement organizations in the United States today, including the labor movement, grassroots community organizing, and groups working on global causes in the anarchist and progressive traditions. Leondar-Wright applies Pierre Bourdieu’s theories of cultural capital and habitus to four class trajectories: lifelong working-class and poor; lifelong professional middle class; voluntarily downwardly mobile; and upwardly mobile.

Compellingly written for both activists and social scientists, this book describes class differences in paths to activism, attitudes toward leadership, methods of conflict resolution, ways of using language, diversity practices, use of humor, methods of recruiting, and group process preferences. Too often, we miss class. Missing Class makes a persuasive case that seeing class culture differences could enable activists to strengthen their own groups and build more durable cross-class alliances for social justice.

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• Published on: 2014-04-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .69" h x 6.33" w x 9.22" l, .86 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 288 pages

Survivors of Slavery: Modern-Day Slave Narratives

Survivors of Slavery: Modern-Day Slave Narratives
Laura T. Murphy (Author)

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Slavery is not a crime confined to the far reaches of history. It is an injustice that continues to entrap twenty-seven million people across the globe. Laura Murphy offers close to forty survivor narratives from Cambodia, Ghana, Lebanon, Macedonia, Mexico, Russia, Thailand, Ukraine, and the United States, detailing the horrors of a system that forces people to work without pay and against their will, under the threat of violence, with little or no means of escape. Representing a variety of circumstances in diverse contexts, these survivors are the Frederick Douglasses, Sojourner Truths, and Olaudah Equianos of our time, testifying to the widespread existence of a human rights tragedy and the urgent need to address it.

Through storytelling and firsthand testimony, this anthology shapes a twenty-first-century narrative that many believe died with the end of slavery in the Americas. Organized around such issues as the need for work, the punishment of defiance, and the move toward activism, the collection isolates the causes, mechanisms, and responses to slavery that allow the phenomenon to endure. Enhancing scholarship in women's studies, sociology, criminology, law, social work, and literary studies, the text establishes a common trajectory of vulnerability, enslavement, captivity, escape, and recovery, creating an invaluable resource for activists, scholars, legislators, and service providers.

• Rank: #73541 in Books
• Published on: 2014-03-25
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
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• Binding: Paperback
• 344 pages

World Report 2014: Events of 2013 (Human Rights Watch World Report)

World Report 2014: Events of 2013 (Human Rights Watch World Report)
Human Rights Watch (Author), Kenneth Roth (Introduction)

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The 24th annual World Report summarizes human rights conditions in more than ninety countries and territories worldwide, reflecting extensive investigative work undertaken in 2013 by Human Rights Watch staff in close partnership with domestic human rights activists. World Report 2014 gives particular focus on the roles-positive or negative-played in each country by key domestic and international figures. This year's report includes contributions from Maria McFarland Sánchez-Moreno, David Mepham, and Dinah PoKempner, with an introduction by Human Rights Watch director Kenneth Roth assessing the year's most pressing human rights issue.

• Rank: #57724 in Books
• Published on: 2014-02-25
• Released on: 2014-02-25
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 1.50" h x 6.00" w x 8.90" l, 2.00 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 672 pages

Live from Death Row

Live from Death Row
Mumia Abu-jamal (Author), John Edgar Wideman (Introduction)
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Once a prominent radio reporter, Mumia Abu-Jamal is now in a Pennsylvania prison awaiting his state-sactioned execution. In 1982 he was convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner after a trial many have criticized as profoundly biased. Live From Death Row is a collection of his prison writings--an impassioned yet unflinching account of the brutalities and humiliations of prison life. It is also a scathing indictment of racism and political bias in the American judicial system that is certain to fuel the controversy surrounding the death penalty and freedom of speech.

• Rank: #6944 in Books
• Published on: 1996-06-01
• Released on: 1996-06-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
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• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

A Legal Guide for Lesbian & Gay Couples (Legal Guide for Lesbian and Gay Couples)

A Legal Guide for Lesbian & Gay Couples (Legal Guide for Lesbian and Gay Couples)
Frederick Hertz Attorney (Author), Emily Doskow Attorney (Author)

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Laws affecting LGBT couples are changing rapidly, and while it's an exciting time for all gay and lesbian partners, keeping up with the myriad ways the shifting legal landscape touches your family life can be daunting. Now more than ever, it's important that you take the proper legal steps to define and protect your relationship in the eyes of the law. If you don't, you run the risk of being shut out of each other's lives -- and the lives of children you co-parent -- in times of medical, financial or personal crisis.

• Rank: #393524 in Books
• Published on: 2014-06-30
• Original language: English
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• 448 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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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.

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• 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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Hidden Genocides (Genocide, Political Violence, Human Rights)

Hidden Genocides (Genocide, Political Violence, Human Rights)
Professor Alexander Laban Hinton (Editor, Contributor), Thomas La Pointe (Editor), Douglas Irvin-Erickson (Editor), A. Dirk Moses (Contributor), Elisa von Joeden-Forgey (Contributor), Daniel Feierstein (Contributor), Donna-Lee Frieze (Contributor), Mato Nunpa (Contributor), Walter Richmond (Contributor), Adam Jones (Contributor), Hannibal Travis (Contributor), Krista Hegburg (Contributor)

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Why are some genocides prominently remembered while others are ignored, hidden, or denied? Consider the Turkish campaign denying the Armenian genocide, followed by the Armenian movement to recognize the violence. Similar movements are building to acknowledge other genocides that have long remained out of sight in the media, such as those against the Circassians, Greeks, Assyrians, the indigenous peoples in the Americas and Australia, and the violence that was the precursor to and the aftermath of the Holocaust.

The contributors to this collection look at these cases and others from a variety of perspectives. These essays cover the extent to which our biases, our ways of knowing, our patterns of definition, our assumptions about truth, and our processes of remembering and forgetting as well as the characteristics of generational transmission, the structures of power and state ideology, and diaspora have played a role in hiding some events and not others. Noteworthy among the collection’s coverage is whether the trade in African slaves was a form of genocide and a discussion not only of Hutus brutalizing Tutsi victims in Rwanda, but of the execution of moderate Hutus as well.

Hidden Genocides is a significant contribution in terms of both descriptive narratives and interpretations to the emerging subfield of critical genocide studies.

Contributors: Daniel Feierstein, Donna-Lee Frieze, Krista Hegburg, Alexander Laban Hinton, Adam Jones, A. Dirk Moses, Chris M. Nunpa, Walter Richmond, Hannibal Travis, and Elisa von Joeden-Forgey

• Rank: #135889 in Books
• Published on: 2013-12-18
• Released on: 2013-11-us.html
• Original language: English
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• Binding: Paperback
• 248 pages

491 Days: Prisoner Number 1323/69 (Modern African Writing Series)

491 Days: Prisoner Number 1323/69 (Modern African Writing Series)
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela (Author), Ahmed Kathrada (Foreword)

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On a freezing winter’s night, a few hours before dawn on May 12, 1969, South African security police stormed the Soweto home of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, activist and wife of the imprisoned Nelson Mandela, and arrested her in the presence of her two young daughters, then aged nine and ten.

Rounded up in a group of other antiapartheid activists under Section 6 of the Terrorism Act, designed for the security police to hold and interrogate people for as long as they wanted, she was taken away. She had no idea where they were taking her or what would happen to her children. For Winnie Mandela, this was the start of 491 days of detention and two trials.

Forty-one years after Winnie Mandela’s release on September 14, 1970, Greta Soggot, the widow of one of the defense attorneys from the 1969?A70 trials, handed her a stack of papers that included a journal and notes she had written while in detention, most of the time in solitary confinement. Their reappearance brought back to Winnie vivid and horrifying memories and uncovered for the rest of us a unique and personal slice of South Africa’s history.

491 Days: Prisoner number 1323/69 shares with the world Winnie Mandela’s moving and compelling journal along with some of the letters written between several affected parties at the time, including Winnie and Nelson Mandela, himself then a prisoner on Robben Island for nearly seven years. Readers will gain insight into the brutality she experienced and her depths of despair, as well as her resilience and defiance under extreme pressure. This young wife and mother emerged after 491 days in detention unbowed and determined to continue the struggle for freedom.

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• Published on: 2014-03-15
• Original language: English
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• 264 pages

Biko: A Life

Biko: A Life
Xolela Mangcu (Author), Nelson Mandela (Foreword)

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Steve Biko was an exceptional and inspirational leader, a pivotal figure in South African history. As a leading anti-apartheid activist and thinker, Biko created the Black Consciousness Movement, the grassroots organization which would mobilize a large proportion of the black urban population. His death in policy custody at the age of just 30 robbed South Africa of one of its most gifted leaders. Although the rudimentary facts of his life - and death - are well known, there has until now been no in-depth book on this major political figure and the impact of his life and tragic death. Xolela Mangcu, who knew Biko, provides the first in-depth look at the life of one of the most iconic figures of the anti-apartheid movement, whose legacy is still strongly felt today, both in South Africa, and worldwide in the global struggle for civil rights, today.

• Rank: #172701 in Books
• Published on: 2013-11-26
• Released on: 2013-11-26
• Original language: English
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• 352 pages

Nelson Mandela: Portrait of an Extraordinary Man

Nelson Mandela: Portrait of an Extraordinary Man
Richard Stengel (Author)

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