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Language
English
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Following the February 14, 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Cameron Kasky immediately recruited a colorful band of theatre kids and rising activists to map out a movement. A month later, their March for Our Lives was the fourth largest protest in American history. Cullen shows how these kids seized an opportunity, organizing the young activist groups mushrooming across America in their image. They forsee a generational struggle...
Author
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
xvii, 372 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Keith Woodhouse explores the political and intellectual history of the radical environmental movement--a movement founded by activists who grew disenchanted with the strategies of the mainstream environmental movement. While mainstream environmentalists (Sierra Club, the Wilderness Society, etc.) emphasized lobbying and working within the political system, groups like Earth First! increasingly championed a more radical approach both tactically and...
Author
Publisher
Time Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
232 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A TIME political correspondent demonstrates how elected women are positively changing how government is run, identifying the conversations, deals and decisions that are resetting legislative agenda and establishing promising future directions.
Author
Publisher
BenBella Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
373 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Since the beginning of the #MeToo movement, tens of thousands of people in South Korea have taken to the street to end a decades-long abortion ban and bring down powerful men accused of sexual misconduct. South Korean feminists battle against their own patriarchal society as well as challenging stereotypes of docile Asian women in the Western imagination. Jung takes readers into public and private spaces where spycam porn crimes are rampant, and shows...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Napoleon is a new kind of hero, complete with a tight red 'fro, sweet moon boots, and skills that can't be topped. Napoleon spends his days drawing mythical beasts, duking it out with his older brother, Kip, and trying to avoid his scheming Uncle Rico. When two new friends enter Napolean's life - shy Deb and mustachioed Pedro - the trio launches a campaign to elect Pedro for class president and make the student body's wildest dreams come true. But...
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Publisher
Dutton, An imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xiii, 353 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"For the past thirty-five years Emily's List has helped the campaigns of thousands of pro-choice Democratic women, but the hardest part has always been convincing more women to run. Then Donald Trump was elected, and something shifted into place. American women who were furious and frustrated were looking for a way to channel their outrage into action, united in proclaiming, "If that guy can get elected, why not me?""--
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxiv, 236 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Two advocates for women's rights chronicle the global impact of the #MeToo movement and how it uses technology to reach across borders, races, and economic divides to fight against the violence and discrimination that women face.
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Series
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xliv, 193 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
U2's significant career far exceeds that of most average successful rock bands, with a prolific output of thirteen well-received studio albums and a sometimes relentless touring schedule. The band is famous for uniquely drawing together music, art, faith, and activism, all within a lucrative career that has given each of these elements an unusual degree of social and cultural resonance. Broad-minded musically and intellectually, U2's output is thematically...
53) Who's afraid of Frances Fox Piven?: the essential writings of the professor Glenn Beck loves to hate
Author
Publisher
New Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
xii, 290 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"The sociologist and political scientist Frances Fox Piven and her late husband Richard Cloward have been famously credited by Glenn Beck with devising the Cloward/Piven Strategy, " a world view responsible, according to Beck, for everything from creating a culture of poverty" and fomenting violent revolution" to causing global warming and the recent financial crisis. Called an enemy of the people, " over the past year Piven has been subjected to...
59) Cousin Bobby
Publisher
Cinevista
Pub. Date
1992.
Physical Desc
1 video cassette (70 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Language
English
60) Every day is election day: a woman's guide to winning any office, from the PTA to the White House
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Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xiv, 241 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"With expert guidance and abundant resources, this practical and inspirational guide is for women at all stages of life who want to seek and win public leadership and public office at any level. According to research, women considering leadership positions or running for elected office are more inhibited than men by family concerns and by a lack of confidence, and speaking directly to these issues, this book offers pragmatic advice and strategies...
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