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  Democracy For Beginners

  Robert Cavalier

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  With all the talk about “democracy” these days, it’s surprising how little time is spent concentrating on the concept of democracy itself, its history and justification as a form of political governance. Democracy for Beginners looks at democracy’s rich evolution in its varied forms, and at some of the challenges democracies face today.Beginning with the rise of democracy in fifth-century Athens and ending with an exploration of what the future might hold — for example the notion of “e-democracy”—Democracy for Beginners is an important resource for understanding the foundation on which our country stands. Readers will become familiar with ideas advanced by democracy’s advocates and architects, and by its critics, from Plato to contemporary social choice theoreticians.Democracy for Beginners is the perfect introduction to the United States of America's founding principles.

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  Notes on Saul D Alinsky's Rules...

  Instaread

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  PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Saul D. Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals and NOT the original book. 
   
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  Rules for Radicals: A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals (1971) by Saul D. Alinsky is a how-to guide for political organizers who want to make real, lasting changes to a political system. Alinksy draws on decades of his own organizing experience to elaborate rules for bringing about change. He argues that these tried-and-true rules will work regardless of time or place… 
   
  Inside this companion to the book:Overview of the BookInsights from the BookImportant PeopleAuthor's Style and PerspectiveIntended Audience 
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  Resisting Illegitimate Authority...

  Bruce E. Levine

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  The capacity to comply with abusive authority is humanity's fatal flaw. Fortunately, within the human family there are anti-authoritarians—people comfortable questioning the legitimacy of authority and challenging and resisting its illegitimate forms. However, as Resisting Illegitimate Authority reveals, authoritarians attempt to marginalize anti-authoritarians, who are scorned, shunned, financially punished, psychopathologized, criminalized, and even assassinated.Profiling a diverse group of US anti-authoritarians—including Thomas Paine, Ralph Nader, Malcolm X, and Lenny Bruce—in order to glean useful lessons from their lives, Resisting Illegitimate Authority is the first self-help manual for anti-authoritarians. Discussing anti-authoritarian approaches to depression, relationships, and parenting, it provides political, spiritual, philosophical, and psychological tools to help those suffering violence and marginalization in a society whose most ardent cheerleaders for "freedom" are often its most obedient and docile citizens.Resisting Illegitimate Authority is about bigotry, but not bigotry directed at race, religion, gender, or sexual preference. It is about bigotry directed at rebellious personalities and temperaments.

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  The Federalist Papers &...

  Alexander Hamilton, James...

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  How the Constitutional Debate changed the old political system and shaped the very core of American democracy – This meticulously created collection contains the old laws of the country and the constitutional changes made after the Revolution, together with the arguments of Founding Fathers about the crucial decisions which shaped the America we know today: government resting on the people, executive power status, election organization, defense, taxation, powers of the Union, the judiciary, senate... By reading their words you will have a clear understanding how this debate influenced our present and created the American democracy:
  Need for Stronger Union
    Federalist Papers: I, II, III, IV, V, VI
    Anti-Federalist Papers: John Dewitt I&II
  Bill of Rights
    Federalist: LXXXIV
    Anti-Federalist: John Dewitt II
  Nature and Powers of the Union
    Federalist: I, XIV, XV
    Anti-Federalist: Patrick Henry
  Responsibility and Checks in Self-government
    Federalist: X, LI
    Anti-Federalist: Centenel I
  Extent of Union, States' Rights, Bill of Rights, Taxation
    Federalist: X, XXXII, XXXIII, XXXV…
    Anti-Federalist: Brutus I
  Extended Republics
    Federalist: VII, X, XIV, XXXV, XXXVI
    Anti-Federalist: Federal Farmer I&II
  Broad Construction, Taxing Powers
    Federalist: XXIII, XXX, XXXI, XXXII…..
    Anti-Federalist: Brutus VI
  Defense, Standing Armies
    Federalist: XXIV, XXV, XXVI, XXVII, XXVIII, XXIX
    Anti-Federalist: Brutus X
  The Judiciary
    Federalist: LXXVIII, LXXIX, LXXX, LXXXI, LXXXII, LXXXIII
    Anti-Federalist: Brutus XI, XII, XV
  Government Resting on the People
    Federalist: XXIII, XLIX
    Anti-Federalist: John Dewitt III
  Executive Power
    Federalist: LXVII
    Anti-Federalist: Cato V
  Regulating Elections
    Federalist: LIX
    Anti-Federalist: Cato VII
  House of Representatives
    Federalist: XXVII, XXVIII, LII, LIII, LIV, LVII
    Anti-Federalist: Brutus IV
  The Senate
    Federalist: LXII, LXIII
    Anti-Federalist: Brutus XVI
  Articles of Confederation (1777)
  Declaration of Independence

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  Viral Cultures - Activist...

  Marika Cifor

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  Serving as a vital supplement to the existing scholarship on AIDS activism of the 1980s and 1990s, Viral Cultures is the first book to critically examine the archives that have helped preserve and create the legacy of those radical activities. Marika Cifor charts the efforts activists, archivists, and curators have made to document the work of AIDS activism in the United States and the infrastructure developed to maintain it, safeguarding the material for future generations to remember these social movements and to revitalize the epidemic's past in order to remake the present and future of AIDS.Drawing on large institutional archives such as the New York Public Library, as well as those developed by small, community-based organizations, this work of archival ethnography details how contemporary activists, artists, and curators use these records to build on the cultural legacy of AIDS activism to challenge the conditions of injustice that continue to undergird current AIDS crises. Cifor analyzes the various power structures through which these archives are mediated, demonstrating how ideology shapes the nature of archival material and how it is accessed and used. Positioning vital nostalgia as both a critical faculty and a generative practice, this book explores the act of saving this activist past and reanimating it in the digital age.

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  The Making of Black Lives Matter...

  Christopher J. Lebron

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  Started in the wake of George Zimmerman's 2013 acquittal in the death of Trayvon Martin, the #BlackLivesMatter movement has become a powerful and incendiary campaign demanding redress for the brutal and unjustified treatment of black bodies by law enforcement in the United States. The movement is only a few years old, but as Christopher J. Lebron argues in this book, the sentiment behind it is not; the plea and demand that "Black Lives Matter" comes out of a much older and richer tradition arguing for the equal dignity—and not just equal rights—of black people.In this updated edition, The Making of Black Lives Matter presents a condensed and accessible intellectual history of the #BlackLivesMatter movement and expands on the movement's relevancy. This edition includes a new introduction that explores how the movement's core ideas have been challenged, re-affirmed, and re-imagined during the white nationalism of the Trump years, as well as a new chapter that examines the ideas and importance of Angela Davis and Amiri Baraka as significant participants in the Black Power Movement and Black Arts Movement, respectively. Drawing on the work of Davis, Baraka, and other revolutionary black public intellectuals, Lebron clarifies what it means to assert that "Black Lives Matter" when faced with contemporary instances of anti-black law enforcement.

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