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"In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Angela Y. Davis illuminates the connections between struggles against state violence and oppression throughout history and around the world. Reflecting on the importance of Black feminism, intersectionality, and prison abolitionism for today's struggles, Davis discusses the legacies of previous liberation struggles-- from the Black Freedom Movement to the...
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At an early age, Martin Luther King Jr. was unhappy about the unfair laws and customs that made it difficult for African Americans to live freely. Before he reached his teen years, he vowed to do something about them. As an adult, he became a preacher and civil rights leader. He told the world about his dream for racial harmony and peace in the United States. He marched, led boycotts and sit-ins, and made speeches to try to obtain civil rights for...
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A groundbreaking collection based on oral histories that brilliantly plumb the leadership of African American women in the twentieth-century fight for civil rights-many nearly lost to history-from the latest winner of the Studs and Ida Terkel Prize. During the Civil Rights Movement, African American women were generally not in the headlines; they simply did the work that needed to be done. Yet despite their significant contributions at all levels...
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She was born the 20th child in a family that had lived in the Mississippi Delta for generations, first as enslaved people and then as sharecroppers. She left school at 12 to pick cotton, as those before her had done, in a world in which white supremacy was an unassailable citadel. She was subjected without her consent to an operation that deprived her of children. And she was denied the most basic of all rights in America - the right to cast a ballot...
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First published in 1862 after Dostoyevsky's imprisonment in a Siberian labor camp, "The House of the Dead" is a collection of memoirs, related by themes, that portrays the horrific life of convicts. The author drew on his own experiences in prison to depict the squalor, destitution, and severity of a Siberian camp with remorseless detail. Dostoyevsky reveals the characters of many of the other convicts, which includes the depravity many have come...
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In 1994, Mab Segrest first explained how she "had become a woman haunted by the dead." Against a backdrop of nine generations of her family's history, Segrest explored her experiences in the 1980s as a white lesbian organizing against a virulent far-right movement in North Carolina. Memoir of a Race Traitor became a classic text of white antiracist practice.
Juxtaposing childhood memories with contemporary events, Segrest described her journey into...
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This graphic novel is Congressman John Lewis' first-hand account of his lifelong struggle for civil and human rights, meditating in the modern age on the distance traveled since the days of Jim Crow and segregation. Rooted in Lewis' personal story, it also reflects on the highs and lows of the broader civil rights movement. Book One spans Lewis' youth in rural Alabama, his life-changing meeting with Martin Luther King, Jr., the birth of the Nashville...
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-- “This book is essential. Don’t miss it.” —MARK LEVIN “A brilliant examination of the actual facts of the George Floyd case and the subsequent exploitation of his death by Black Lives Matter.” —LEO TERRELL, civil rights attorney & commentator In his latest salvo in the battle for America’s survival, David Horowitz exposes the racial hoax that is spawning riots and dividing the nation. Examining the twenty-six most notorious cases...
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"Fred D. Gray was just twenty-four years old when he became the defense lawyer for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a young minister who had become the face of the bus boycott that had rocked the city of in Montgomery, Alabama. In this incredible history, Gray takes us behind the scenes of that landmark case."--
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Thoreau advocates for nonviolent protest in his classic manifesto
Motivated by his disgust with the US government, Henry David Thoreau’s seminal philosophical essay enjoins individuals to stand against the ruling forces that seek to erase their free will. It is the duty of a good citizen, he argues, not only to disobey a bad law, but also to protest an unjust government. His message of nonviolence and appeal to value one’s...
Motivated by his disgust with the US government, Henry David Thoreau’s seminal philosophical essay enjoins individuals to stand against the ruling forces that seek to erase their free will. It is the duty of a good citizen, he argues, not only to disobey a bad law, but also to protest an unjust government. His message of nonviolence and appeal to value one’s...
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Pseudo religious ideas are used to pass laws that prohibit its option. But abortion is essential to ensure that children will be born into families that want them. At lest as important is the effect on overpopulation and its result--climate change.Few realize that God told Moses that abortion is required in at least one situation--and tells the priests how to do it! But there is much more that pro-choise people should know.
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A careful and thorough examination of the 2nd Amendment suggest that it is very different from what many people think. In fact, rather than giving UA citizens a free choice of all and any Gun ther may like, the 2nd Amendment can be used to prevent the most dangerous people from having easy access to guns.
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En los últimos años el fenómeno de la corrupción ha impactado significativamente en la región latinoamericana. En ese contexto, el libro analiza las instituciones, mecanismos, legislación y jurisprudencia que dan lugar al ius anticorruptionis commune latinoamericanum, pues se requiere conformar una cultura jurídica común anticorrupción para dar tratamiento a la amenaza que representa para los derechos humanos. Se enfatiza que la lucha anticorrupción...
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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 capacidad es un tema de interés transversal en el derecho, está presente en todos sus ámbitos. Es un atributo que tiene todo sujeto a través del cual puede realizar actos que no le estén prohibidos. Desde el 2018, a través del Decreto Legislativo 1384, contamos con un nuevo tratamiento de la capacidad en el Código Civil que se adecúa a las directrices en pro de la autonomía y la plena capacidad jurídica de las personas con discapacidad,...
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This series of essays address the ongoing debate centered on how patriotism is, defined and who is a patriot. True patriotism is much broader than how it has been traditionally, described in American society. There is a spirit of opposition within the nation's history that has never been, credited for being the primary source of developing American democracy.
"On Resistance" makes the case that activist groups such as the Black Panther Party for...
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¿Mis derechos terminan donde empiezan los de los demás? ¿Es más importante el derecho a la libre circulación que a una vida digna? ¿Qué respuesta ofrece la justicia? Carta abierta sobre la intolerancia entabla un diálogo con aquellos que exigen, por parte del derecho, una respuesta más severa hacia quienes protestan: los que reaccionan ante el maltrato estatal o empresarial, los que se manifiestan por salarios decentes, los que cortan calles...
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Democracy Detained exposes the deplorable secret crimes committed by the Bush administration in their war on terror. Prominent legal activist Barbara Olshansky documents the assault on our constitutional democracy since 9/11, meticulously analyzing the unlawful justifications made by the U.S. government for covert actions at home and abroad. She reports on current shocking practices, from the outsourcing of torture through extraordinary rendition,...
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Importance of Right to information is growing day to day to bring the transparency in the administration and the governmental works. The Government of India has notified 'The Right to Information Act, 2005', vide the Gazette of India; Extraordinary Part II-Section I, New Delhi, Tuesday, June 21, 2005. This is an Act to provide for setting out the practical regime of right to information for citizens to secure access to information under the control...
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The Politics of Love in Myanmar offers an intimate ethnographic account of a group of LGBT activists before, during, and after Myanmar's post-2011 political transition. Lynette J. Chua explores how these activists devoted themselves to, and fell in love with, the practice of human rights and how they were able to empower queer Burmese to accept themselves, gain social belonging, and reform discriminatory legislation and law enforcement. Informed by...
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