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Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Coupled with the speed and networking capacities of social media, #blacklivesmatter was the hashtag heard round the world. But Alicia Garza well knew that the distance between a hashtag and real change would take more than a single facebook to cover. It would take a movement. Garza was a lifelong activist who had spent the previous decades educating herself on the hard lessons of organizing. She started as a kid, working on sexual education for her...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The students of Stanton Elementary School, which is a polling place, find out all they can about voting and then encourage everyone in their neighborhoods to cast their ballots. Creative nonfiction picture book: includes additional facts and historical details.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In a story inspired by her own family's desire to help others, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor takes young readers on a journey through a neighborhood where kids and adults, activists and bus drivers, friends and strangers all help one another to build a better world for themselves and their community"--
Author
Publisher
Hurst & Company
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
viii, 278 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Greater economic and cultural openness in the West has not benefited all of our citizens. Among those who have been left behind, a populist politics of culture and identity has successfully challenged the traditional politics of Left and Right, creating a new division: between the mobile 'achieved' identity of the people from Anywhere, and the marginalised, roots-based identity of the people from Somewhere. This schism accounts for the Brexit vote,...
Author
Language
English
Description
Friedman discusses how the key to understanding the 21st century is understanding that the planet's three largest forces -- Moore's law (technology), the market (globalization) and Mother Nature (climate change and biodiversity loss) -- are accelerating all at once. And these accelerations are transforming the five key realms: the workplace, politics, geopolitics, ethics, and community. Friedman posits that we should purposely "be late" -- we should...
Author
Publisher
Jossey-Bass
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 236 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Building on his own extensive experience as a writer and activist on various aspects of inner and institutional life, Parker J. Palmer explores the soulful dynamics of American politics. What he did for educators in The Courage to Teach he does for citizens here, exploring the dynamics of our inner lives for clues to reclaiming our national unity. In Healing the Heart of Democracy, he points the way to a politics worthy of the human spirit, rooted...
Author
Publisher
Nation Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
xvii, 92 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
Outlines a guide to recovery from oppression by first identifying the problems that surround us, then actively working together to create a just, more holistic society while at the same time returning power to the people.
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Baya is a young, extroverted liberal who lives by the old hippie slogan 'Make love, not war'. She seduces right-wing men to convert them to her political causes - and so far she's gotten exceptional results. That is, until she meets Arthur, a middle-aged, middle-of-the road scientist, and the sparks fly.
15) Bitter
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After a childhood in foster care, Bitter is thrilled to have been chosen to attend Eucalyptus, a special school where she can focus on her painting surrounded by other creative teens. But outside this haven, the streets are filled with protests against the deep injustices that grip the city of Lucille. Bitter's instinct is to stay safe within the walls of Eucalyptus but her friends aren't willing to settle for a world that's so far away from what...
Author
Publisher
Celebra
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
x, 275 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
As founder of the Daily Kos, the largest political blog in the nation, Markos Moulitsas Zúniga shares practical guidelines on how grassroots movements can thrive in the age of global information, while referencing historical and present examples of the tragedy caused without those actions.
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
239 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In September 2011, two leading civic engagement advocacy organizations headed, respectively, by Robert Putnam and Peter Levine released a joint report showing that a region's level of civic engagement was a strong predictor of its ability to recover from the Great Recession. This finding confirms what advocates of civic engagement have long hypothesized: that strengthening the networks between government and civil society and increasing citizen participation...
Author
Series
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
5 CDs (5 hr., 45 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The author of "The Covenant with Black America" evaluates whether or not the goals outlined in his previous works have been realized and how politicians and citizens have responded to his challenge to accept responsibility for such issues as health care, education, and the environment.
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