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Este libro gira en torno a la experiencia de la exitosa campaña "Sí, acepto" en Costa Rica, desde la perspectiva de algunas y algunos de sus principales protagonistas, detallando antecedentes, apoyos, estrategias de publicidad, argumentos legales, obstáculos y aprendizajes. Asimismo, tiene de telón de fondo una de las piezas jurídicas más importantes y bellas de los últimos años: la Opinión Consultiva OC-24/17 de la Corte Interamericana de...
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«La obra imponente de Luigi Ferrajoli -tras más de medio siglo de producción teórica y de un esfuerzo titánico, generoso y cristalino, volcado en la teorización y la lucha por el mejor derecho y por los derechos de todos- expresa la convergencia de tres vectores, tres almas que no suelen presentarse juntas, y menos con tan buenos resultados. Una, la del estudioso con la audacia necesaria para aventurarse por caminos inexplorados e inciertos,...
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PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Michael Eric Dyson's Tears We Cannot Stop and NOT the original book. Preview: Michael Eric Dyson's Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America is a book about racism in the United States. Dyson argues that white Americans need to understand the privilege and power whiteness grants them. They can then take steps to end racism…Inside this companion to the book: 1.) Overview of the Book 2.) Insights from the...
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Since September 11, 2001, thousands of individuals in the U.S. have been needlessly swept up in the War on Terror and found themselves subject to a wide range of human and civil rights abuses, from rendition and torture, to workplace discrimination, bullying, FBI surveillance and harassment. In their own words, the narrators of Patriot Acts recount their lives before the 9/11 attacks and their experiences of the backlash that have deeply altered their...
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Hurricane Katrina inflicted damage on a scale unprecedented in American history, nearly destroying a major city and killing thousands of its citizens. With far too little help from indifferent, incompetent government agencies, the poor bore the brunt of the disaster. The residents of traditionally impoverished and minority communities suffered incalculable losses and endured unimaginable conditions. And the few facilities that did exist to help victims...
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Este libro es el resultado de un trabajo colectivo establecido sobre la base de un diálogo entre investigadores pertenecientes a disciplinas e instituciones variadas, cuyo principal objetivo ha sido el desarrollo de elementos de análisis que permitan adentrarse y explorar el lugar que ocupan, el rol que desempeñan, la función que cumplen o la labor que efectúan los procesos subjetivos categorizados ya sea bajo la rúbrica de emociones, afectos,...
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“New Threats to Academic Freedom in Asia” examines the increasingly dire state of academic freedom in Asia. Using cross-national data and in-depth case studies, the authors shed light on the multifaceted nature of academic censorship and provide reference points to those working in restrictive academic environments.
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Incorporé en 1958, L'Entraide missionnaire a réalisé un parcours remarquable au service de la solidarité internationale grâce à l'engagement soutenu de ses membres, des personnes responsables de la permanence et un grand nombre de collaboratrices et collaborateurs à travers le monde. En 2015, suite à une lecture collective des signes des temps, les membres de L'Entraide missionnaire ont pris la décision d'entamer un processus de transmission...
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A Lambda Literary Award finalist, Captive Genders is a powerful tool against the prison industrial complex and for queer liberation. This expanded edition contains four new essays, including a foreword by CeCe McDonald and a new essay by Chelsea Manning. Eric Stanley is a postdoctoral fellow at UCSD. His writings appear in Social Text, American Quarterly, and Women and Performance, as well as various collections. Nat Smith works with Critical Resistance...
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A Dover Original, this collection of essays, letters, poems, and speeches by the bold women who joined the abolitionist movement of the nineteenth century will educate and inspire all who are interested in this era of American history. The collection includes the work of 26 remarkable women whose efforts, at great risk to their own safety, became instrumental in fighting slavery, including Phillis Wheatley, Sojourner Truth, Mary Prince, Sarah Mapps...
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Throughout Indian history, various individuals and groups have questioned, censured and debated authority-be it the state or empire, religious or political traditions, caste hierarchies, patriarchy or even the idea of god. These dissenting voices have persisted despite all attempts made to silence them. They have inspired revolutions and uprisings, helped preserve individual dignity and freedom, and promoted tolerance and a plurality in thought and...
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When white nationalists and their supporters clashed with counter-demonstrators in the college town of Charlottesville over the removal of a Confederate statue, resulting in the death of one anti-racist activist and the wounding of thirty-five more, a signal moment in American history was reached. Suddenly, U.S. citizens who had previously thought of themselves as moderate began to wonder whether violence in defending their values against fellow citizens...
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The fifth volume in the “Voice of Witness” series presents the narratives of Zimbabweans whose lives have been affected by the country's political, economic, and human rights crises. This book asks the question: How did a country with so much promise-a stellar education system, a growing middle class of professionals, a sophisticated economic infrastructure, a liberal constitution, and an independent judiciary-go so wrong?
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Decades ago, Malcolm X eloquently stated that communities have the legitimate right to defend themselves "by any means necessary" with any tool or tactic, including guns. This wide-ranging anthology uncovers the hidden histories and ideas of community-armed self-defense, exploring how it has been used by marginalized and oppressed communities, as well as anarchists and radicals within significant social movements, of the twentieth and twenty-first...
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Millions of people have fled from conflicts and persecution in all parts of this Northeast African country, and many thousands more have been enslaved as human spoils of war. In this book, refugees and abductees recount their escapes from the wars in Darfur and South Sudan, from political and religious persecution, and from abduction by militias. In their own words, they recount life before their displacement and the reasons for their flight. They...
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In the fall of 1739, as many as one hundred enslaved African and African Americans living within twenty miles of Charleston joined forces to strike down their white owners and march en masse toward Spanish Florida and freedom. More than sixty whites and thirty slaves died in the violence that followed. Among the most important slave revolts in colonial America, the Stono Rebellion also ranks as South Carolina's largest slave insurrection and one of...
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On January 21, 2017, five million people in 82 countries and on all seven continents stood up with one voice. The Women's March began with one cause, women's rights, but quickly became a movement around the many issues that were hotly debated during the 2016 U.S. presidential race-immigration, health care, environmental protections, LGBTQ rights, racial justice, freedom of religion, and workers' rights, among others. In the mere 66 days between the...
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We Have Not Been Moved is a compendium addressing the two leading pillars of U.S. Empire. Inspired by the work of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who called for a "true revolution of values" against the racism, militarism, and materialism, which he saw as the heart of a society "approaching spiritual death," this book recognizes that, for the most part, the traditional peace movement has not been moved far beyond the half-century-old call for a deepening...
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A stunning collection of previously unpublished interviews with key figures of the black freedom struggle by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author In 1964, in the height of the civil rights movement of the 1960s, Pulitzer Prize–winning author and poet Robert Penn Warren set out with a tape recorder to interview leaders of the black freedom struggle. He spoke at length with luminaries such as James Baldwin, Martin Luther King Jr., Stokely Carmichael,...
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The 1776 Report is the official report of The President's Advisory 1776 Commission. Submitted to the President and released as a public document on January 18, 2021, the report explains the core principles of the American founding and how they have shaped American history, considers the leading challenges to these principles at home and abroad, and calls on all Americans to "restore our national unity by rekindling a brave and honest love for our...
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