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Unexpected Power : Conflict and Change Among Transnational Activists (06 Edition)
by Shareen Hertel  Book News Annotation Studying two of the most prominent transnational economic and labor rights campaigns of the 1990s, one to end child labor in Bangladesh and the other to fight gender discrimination in Mexican workplaces, Hertel (political science, U. of Connecticut...
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Take It Personally: How to Make Conscious Choices to Change the World
by Anita Roddick Publisher Comments A consumer revolution is taking hold across the globe. Daily news reports tell us of the sweatshops that produce Gap clothing, the child labor that goes into Nike running shoes, and the deplorable demands that are put on the agricultural workers who...
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Taming Intractable Conflicts
by Chester A. Crocker Publisher Comments Some conflicts seem to defy resolution. Marked by longevity, recurrent violence, and militant agendas, these intractable conflicts refuse to be settled either on the battlefield or at the negotiating table. The longer they fester, the stronger the...
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The Insider's Guide to Political Internships: What to Do Once
by Grant Reeher and Mack Mariani Publisher Comments Every year, thousands of college students invade Washington, D.C. and the fifty state capitals to volunteer as political interns. Unfortunately, they are rarely able to “hit the ground running,” lacking the tools to help them do so. The...
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The World We Want
by Peter Karoff Publisher Comments In The World We Want, Peter Karoff presents a collective vision of an ideal world. The book weaves together multi-sector, multidiscipline strategies, butin large partit is about the power of human connection, reinforced by personal stories of motivation...
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Global Backlash: Citizen Initiatives for a Just World Economy: Citizen Initiatives for a Just World Economy (New Millennium Books in International Studies)
by Robin Broad Publisher Comments Global Backlash is the first book to move beyond the monolithic portrayal of the globalization protests that have escalated since Seattle and are not likely to abate soon. With trenchant analysis and dozens of primary documents from a variety of popular...
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Reclaiming America
by Randy Shaw Publisher Comments Have activists taken the bumper-sticker adage Think Globally, Act Locally too literally? Randy Shaw argues that they have, with destructive consequences for America. Since the 1970s, activist participation in national struggles has steadily given way to...
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Can I Help You?: The Roadmap to Worldwide Peace in the Twenty-First Century
by Faroque Quazi Publisher Comments Every nation has the right to freedom. Unfortunately, the citizens of many countries still cower under inhumane governments and ruthless dictators. Author Faroque Quazi offers a proposal to the United Nations to help solve this worldwide crisis. Written...
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Globalization Challenged: Conviction, Conflict, Community (Leonard Hastings Schoff Lectures)
by George Rupp Publisher Comments In "Globalization Challenged," George Rupp, president of the International Rescue Committee, outlines the steps necessary to engage the contemporary conflict between traditional religious belief and Western secularism. <P>According to Rupp, the key...
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Champions for Peace: Women Winners of the Nobel Peace Prize
by Judith Hicks Stiehm Publisher Comments Since it was first awarded in 1901, only twelve women have won the Nobel Prize for Peace. They hail from all over the world, including the United States, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and Central America. Engaging and inspiring, these women...
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Bamn by Any Means Necessary
by Peter Stansill Synopsis This anthology, first published in 1971, presents many of the radical and visionary movements, groups and cells of protest and propaganda of the late 1960s. It includes such now-well-known groups as the Dutch Provos, the Black Panthers, the Yippies and...
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One Voice
by Vera Brittain Publisher Comments Contains two short books Seeds of Chaos and Humiliation with Honour . This book is inspired by the events that occurred in Hamburg on the night of 27 July, 1943. Several square miles of Hamburg's residential and commercial heart of the city were...
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The Civil Disobedience Handbook: A Brief History and Practical Advice for the Politically Disenchanted
by James Tracy Publisher Comments Non-violent civil disobedience is an American tradition, an essential element of a working democracy. From the Bill of Rights and Henry David Thoreau's classic 1849 essay On the Duty of Civil Disobedience to contemporary direct action tactics utilized...
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Conflict Mediation Across Cultures
by David W Augsberger Publisher Comments Pathways and patterns....
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Making Policy, Making Change: How Communities Are Taking Law Into Their Own Hands
by Makani N Themba Publisher Comments Throughout the country, activists are making change and getting it in writing. Read how community groups have successfully developed and promoted more than 1,000 local policies that have: <p> <UL TYPE="DISC"> <LI>...
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Waging Nonviolent Struggle
by Gene Sharp Publisher Comments "Instructs how to strategically plan nonviolent action, a technique of waging conflict that uses protest, noncooperation and intervention. Draws parallels between nonviolent and military strategy. Documents twenty-three cases showing how nonviolent...
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Price of Dissent: Testimonies Political Repression America
by Bud Schultz Publisher Comments Bud and Ruth Schultz's vivid oral history presents the extraordinary testimony of people who experienced government repression and persecution firsthand. Drawn from three of the most significant social movements of our time--the labor, Black freedom, and...
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Going Public
by Michael Gecan Publisher Comments '"The inside story of an extraordinary politics you probably didn't know existed—ordinary Americans getting together and acquiring real power for themselves." —William Greider, national correspondent, The Nation A New York city...
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Brave Hearts, Rebel Spirits: The Spiritual Activists Handbook
by Brooke Shelby Biggs Publisher Comments You know the names Martin Luther King, Jr., Mohandas Gandhi, Nelson Mandela. But have you heard of Roy Bourgeois, Neta Golan, or Sulak Sivaraksa? How about Vandana Shiva, Daniel and Philip Berrigan, or Janusz Korczak? They, and the dozens more spiritual...
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Free the Children: A Young Man Fights Against Child Labor and Proves That Children Can Change the World
by Craig Kielburger Publisher Comments Here is the dramatic and moving story of one child's transformation from a normal, middle-class kid from the suburbs to an activist, fighting against child labor on the world stage of international human rights. Making headlines around the globe, Graig...
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