Politisk aktivisme

Are We Better Than? is the fourth in series of books that tackle pervasive and perplexing human issues. It is the scaled-down, abridged little-sister version of Can We Do Better? ... which is the first and by the far the largest of the series. Comprising well less than half the number of pages of Can We do Better? ... Are We Better Than? is less daunting and more manageable. This will appeal to people who prefer a smaller, easier, more compact read.All Don's books are about hope for us humans to do better than a mishmash of historical and current issues and harms that arise from misguided, dysfunctional and destructive expressions of masculinity. As clarified throughout the book, misguided, dysfunctional, harmful masculinity is not by all men, or even by most men, but is too-often manifested here, there and everywhere ... by too many men, in too many realms, over too long a time.Are We Better Than? weaves a detailed network of patriarchal issues in culture, religion, politics, institutions, communities, families, and relationships. It highlights the impact of man-made harms to the Earth, First Peoples, Women, Children, and other often-disempowered societal groupings. Some men might struggle with these unusual and confronting themes. In contrast, it is likely that a good proportion of women will sigh and nod as they read.Are We Better Than? concludes with a range of powerful and hopeful invitations that may help us humans do better than our history of man-made harms to ourselves, our kindred species, and the earth ... our Mother.

Drawing on the cases of South Africa, East Timor, Sierra Leone, and the Solomon Islands, examines how Truth and Reconciliation Commissions (TRCs) have engaged with youth in ways that represent their stories and reflect their substantive participatory capacity as political stakeholders.

We are living in a golden age of labor organising, and nowhere is that more apparent than in the tech industry. From Kickstarter to Code for America, unions are blossoming to life, giving new power and voices to workers across the industry. Building a union is never easy, though. What can a union do for you? Why build a union at all?Journey with AppleTogether founder and whistleblower Janneke Parrish as she explores the hows and whys of tech unions. Using the experience and lessons learned from workers, activists, and organizers across the industry, you too can learn why a union matters. You can gain the tools and expertise to unionize your workplace and help build a better tech industry.This book includes:A brief overview of American labor law and how it relates to organizingA step-by-step guide on how to form a union, from conception to electionA guide on union-building at different size companies, from the multinational to the start-upAn overview of tech activism and actions you can take to make a stand

"Companion workbook to the anthology, Practicing Liberation: Transformative Strategies for Collective Healing & Systems Change"--

This book provides a unique perspective on the perpetrators and victims of political violence, using original evidence from the deadly attacks perpetrated in Paris in 2015. Much of the current literature focuses on the perpetrators of such violence. This volume, however, offers a deeper analysis by focusing not only on the terrorists themselves but on understanding the reactions of the general population affected by such lethal acts. It provides a more detailed view of the opponents of terrorism, namely us, and explains how our own reactions can increase or decrease, the potential for political violence. Part I introduces the most relevant theories within social psychology and political psychology that are used to understand terrorism; Part II examines empirical evidence from a French context; and Part III discusses policy implications, with the prevention of political violence as a long-term goal. Finally, the volume offers a blueprint for a more appropriate conceptualization of terrorism as arising out of intergroup conflict suggesting ways to build a resilient society. This book will be of interest to researchers, teachers and students across social psychology, sociology, political psychology and political science.

Applicants for the national security workforce are required to provide detailed personal information as part of the background investigation process to adjudicate their eligibility for a security clearance. As a result, during the course of the personnel vetting process, an individual's race or ethnicity, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, and neurodivergence may be knowable or inferred by the personnel conducting the investigations and adjudications. Human judgment and biases that manifest themselves in other employment or social contexts have the potential to contribute to bias and sources of inequity in the human element of the process of determining security clearance eligibility. The authors explore the potential for related bias or sources of inequity within the federal personnel vetting process. Such potential biases and inequities could inhibit the U.S. government's goals and abilities to hire and maintain national security personnel with diverse backgrounds and perspectives.

With Love, Grief and Fury contains love poems, for people and the planet. Grief poems brimming with compassion, mourning what was and contemplating what could be. And poems of fire and fury that will kick some ass, tell the truth and inspire change and hope.Over thirty years after she first stormed the UK poetry scene, the trailblazing and award-winning writer Salena Godden has produced her most audacious and definitive collection to date. Like a big sister's arm around your shoulder, With Love, Grief and Fury is important and nourishing for the soul.

"Reflections on burnout, trauma & building communities of care in social justice work-for readers of adrienne maree brown, Staci K. Haines, and Ejeris Dixon"--

"Drawing from Sikh and womanist traditions, Valarie Kaur's Sage Warrior is a guide to building a new world from the inside out, by becoming what she describes as the essential archetype for our time: the sage warrior, a figure who embodies both the sage, enamored by the world as it is, and the warrior, who fights for the world as it ought to be. Kaur chronicles over 200 years of epic history from the Punjab region, with each chapter focusing on a single Sikh guru, woman ancestor, and corresponding spiritual lesson, beginning with Guru Nanak, Bibi Nanki, and waking to oneness. Subsequent chapters encourage us to nurture our spirits with lessons such as practicing pleasure, metabolizing grief, and shaping change, and exercises at the end of each section guide us on the path of finding our inner sage warrior. Where See No Stranger was an introduction to the ideas around revolutionary love, Sage Warrior is a source of spiritual nourishment for activists"--

Als Zeitzeuge schaut der Autor zurück auf die Corona Jahre und erzählt nicht nur von Angst und Schrecken, die von den Massenmedien in der Bevölkerung verbreitet wurden, sondern auch vom gelebten Widerstand gegen staatliche Repression und Freiheitsbeschränkungen. Aus Überzeugung, dass es während der sogenannten Pandemie um weit mehr als nur um die Bekämpfung eines Virus ging, widersetzte sich der Autor den Anordnungen der Regierung, wurde Gründungsmitglied einer der grössten Bürgerrechtsbewegungen der Schweiz und beteiligte sich aktiv an Demonstrationen und Mahnwachen, insbesondere in Bern, Kirchberg BE und Burgdorf.Mit Medien Spalten - Widerstand vereint - dem zweiten Band aus der Trilogie zu den Corona Jahren - schildert Guido Brunner seine Erfahrungen aus den besuchten Kundgebungen wie auch von der Spaltung von Gesellschaft. Anhand von Briefen, eMails, wissenschaftlichen Untersuchungen der Medienberichterstattung, Medienberichten und eigenen Erzählungen wird anschaulich dargelegt, wie beinahe lückenlos private und öffentliche Institutionen blindlings dem von Regierung und Medien propagierten Narrativ folgten. Exemplarisch werden die neu entstandenen Medien mittels veröffentlichter Texten vorgestellt. Die Berichte lassen aufhorchen und machen bewusst, dass weder unsere Demokratie noch der gesellschaftliche Zusammenhalt selbstverständlich ist. Eine saubere, ausserparlamentarische Aufarbeitung der Corona-Zeit wird zur Pflicht. Umfangreiche Listen von Büchern, Filmen und Organisationen des Widerstandes verweisen auf weiterführende Quellen. www.fakepandemie.ch

In Walking through Fire, Nawal El Saadawi, author of Woman at Point Zero and one of the Arab world's greatest writers, tells the story of the later years of a life which shaped an iconic voice in global feminism. Covering her life in Nasser's then Sadat's and Mubarak's Egypt, we learn about Saadawi's experience of marriage and motherhood, and we travel with her into exile after her life was threatened by religious extremists. Filled with warmth as well as critical reflection, this book reveals the later years of a remarkable life dedicated to the fight for justice and equality.

Is preparing for war the best means of preserving peace? In Sisters in Peace, Kate Laing contends that this question has never been solely the concern of politicians and strategists. She maps successive generations of twentieth-century women who were eager to engage in political debate even though legislative and cultural barriers worked to exclude their voices. In 1915, during the First World War, the Women's International Congress at The Hague was convened after alarmed and bereaved women from both sides of the conflict insisted that their opinions on war and the pathway to peace be heard. From this gathering emerged the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), which to this day campaigns against militarism and nuclear weapons. In Australia, the formation of a section of WILPF connected political women to a worldwide network that sustained their anti-war activism throughout the last century. In examining the rise of WILPF in Australia, Sisters in Peace provides a gendered history of this country's engagement with the politics of internationalism. This is a history of WILPF women who committed to peace activism even as Australia's national identity and military allegiances shifted over time--a history that has until now been an overlooked part of the Australian peace movement --

Multifaceted study of Pennsylvania's coal miners during the post-World War One era.

These are the memories of Jackie and Roger Bunyan who spent from 1976 until 1978 on the small atoll island of Beru in the Pacific Ocean. The first section of the book tells the story of this newly married couple when they worked for Voluntary Service Overseas. Barely in their twenties, they worked in an outer island boarding school teaching a variety of subjects to local pupils. The book describes the many delights and also the challenges during their time on the island. Over their two years, the couple developed an affection for these unique islands and their inhabitants. The second part of this book leaps forward four decades after leaving. It outlines the threat that rising tides are having on the island of Beru along with the other islands of Kiribati. Of the 33 islands of this Pacific nation, only one island stands more than two or three metres above the ever rising water! With global warming creating higher and higher tides, what is the future for Kiribati?

'Harris reveals the history of an extraordinary animal rights campaign that I was proud to be associated with. A heartfelt and important account of a movement that inspired thousands' Benjamin Zephaniah, poet and activist'When DIY ethos plays out on a grand scale, it has the power to shake governments and change the world. This is a must-read for all contemporary activists' Moby, musician'A story of compassion and courage that was crushed by the state, and a powerful testament to the inspirational campaigns of people who stood for a world without suffering' Peter Tatchell, campaigner for human and animal liberationFor many people, the name 'Huntingdon Life Sciences' will live forever in infamy. In the early 2000s, Europe's largest animal testing laboratory provoked public outrage, and sparked a resistance movement like no other. Your Neighbour Kills Puppies tells the inside story of this remarkable campaign and the forces that rose up against it. It exposes a murky world of institutional animal exploitation, government collusion, corporate lobbyists, agent provocateurs and police spies desperate to silence dissent.Author and campaign veteran Tom Harris transports the reader into the heart of the action, through underground tunnels and illicit animal rescues, before detailing the brutal state-led crackdown which saw scores of activists violently arrested and imprisoned.Tom Harris has spent two decades in the animal liberation movement and is a former coordinator of Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty. He received a five-year prison sentence during the attempted 'elimination' of the anti-vivisection movement and is a named victim in the Miscarriages of Justice category of the Government's Undercover Policing Inquiry.

Chronology of development of political inquiries under technical dialogue umbrella, Kosovo ¿ Serbia. It was interesting how the technical level dialogue become political talks that means - took another dimension of talks between two countries, which took place political aspect without clearly understanding what are the interests of the Kosovo in this process, and the other side of the conviction to enter into these talks to bring Serbia to the EU and bring political ¿peace¿, between countries with no doubts in the end of dialogue but ¿no guaranties with happy¿. But until now there are a lot of confusion in direction what is the purpose of interests of Kosovo expectations of achieving stability in western Balkan? Or what else interest has Kosovo's state according to easily EU integration? Even the public opinion in Kosovo for these talks Kosovo-Serbia, is full of debates and many suspicions and with doubts, these talks were full of an-normal political confidences with certain aims, and the idea was to avoid public opinion and the noise that it could be done during this dialogue.

Balkan states are still at a stage of political and class transformation. There is no stable market economy that would affect the strengthening of the aspect of building a party political orientation, both left and right Political programs.Balkan political developments are charismatic in two matter: the first is the formation of the economic classes and the second, nationalism as an ideology. Without the formation of economic classes, there is no neither a proper and clear party profile. The problems of the Balkan States are characterized by major economic problems, with a greater unemployment and inefficiency and in bad developments of law and order. Balkan states have long been trying to form economic classes. The Balkan countries are more concerned with the problems of regional nationalism, which is bad and not good for the region. While domestic political developments are not stable. In Albania strives to have clear division but more formal than functional, on the one side there is the right path of the DP and on the other two parties left PS and LSI. While in Kosovo there is no clear division of the political class in formal way are PDK and LDK and another part is LVV, NISMA.

Species are going extinct, forests are burning, and children are worried about the future and their peers worldwide. But that is not the whole story: One Friday in 2018, a few young people joined Greta Thunberg to protest, and the global climate strike movement was born. Scientist David Fopp spent 250 Fridays with the newly formed grassroots movements. Together with activists Isabelle Axelsson and Loukina Tille, he offers an insider perspective on how scientists and activists can fight for a just and sustainable global society. The volume also offers both an introduction to ecophilosophy and a unified science of democracy in times of interdependent crises. How can research in all disciplines - from (drama) education and economics to psychology - help with this struggle? And how can we all fight the climate crisis by transforming and deepening democracy?

Partie civile du procès des attentats du 13 novembre 2015, j'ai beaucoup dessiné, et je continue encore à illustrer tout ce que j'ai vécu, vu et entendu.De mes appréhensions et mes crises d'angoisse, aux moments plein d'amour avec mes potes de galère, je suis passée par tous les états. Je vous embraque avec moi dans ma tête, dans mes réflexions et interrogations, et dans cette folle aventure judiciaire. Et vous verrez qu'en 10 mois d'audiences, on peut évoluer à tout point de vue !Je suis à la recherche de vérité, de justice, et de JUSTESSE.La réponse démocratique est la meilleure façon de traiter la barbarie.Carpe Diem !Catherine Bertrand est passionnée de dessin depuis toujours, désormais reconvertie dans le graphisme et l'illustration. Elle a réalisé seule ce livre. Catherine était au Bataclan le 13 novembre 2015 et fait partie de l'association de victimes d'attentats, Life for Paris. En tant que partie civile, elle a suivi le procès des attentats du13 novembre 2015. Désormais vice-présidente de l'Association française des victimes du terrorisme, elle transmet son expérience, auprès de victimes d'autres attentats, et auprès des lycéens de France.

Der Band ist dem Verhältnis von Informationen, Wahlen und Demokratie gewidmet. Deutschland, aber auch andere Länder in den Blick nehmend, widmen sich die Autor:innen vor allem den Bürger:innen, ihren Einstellungen, Interessen und Wahlentscheidungen. Auch die Rolle von Kontexten wird beleuchtet, insbesondere von Informationskontexten: Wie und mit wem sprechen Menschen über Politik, wie informieren sie sich über neue und alte Medien, welche Rollen spielen intermediäre Instanzen?Mit Beiträgen vonO. Appiah | K. Armingeon | Paul A. Beck | T. Bräuninger | P. Darius | M. Debus | B. Ebbinghaus | S. Ellerbrock | W. Eveland | Th. Faas | S. Huber | M. Jiménez-Buedo | R. Johnston | S. Kleinman | H.-D. Klingemann | K.-R. Korte | P. Kraft | M. Krewel | S. Liebig | J. Long | O. Lup | L. Morales | M. Neuman | F. Pappi | J. Partheymüller | M. Peffley | L. Ramiro | A. Roemmele | R. Rohrschneider | S. Roßteutscher | A. Schäfer | C. Schnaudt | J. van Deth | K. Voltmer | S. Walter | K. Weissenbach | B. Weßels | C. Wolf | A. Wolsing

If Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is elected in 2024, as a president who reports to the "people", truly puts the the welfare of all citizens ahead of Wall Street, the big banks, the military-industrial complex, the ruling elite and other powerful special interests, thus serves the needs of the all citizens, not just the wealthy elite, THEN HE WILL NEED A CONGRESS THAT SUPPORTS AND PROMOTES HIS AGENDA.Congress creates and passes the laws that shape everything about our nation: how we treat our citizens, our freedoms, our responsibilities, our relations with every other country on the planet, how we treat the planet itself, war and peace, our economy, our politics, our infrastructure, our monetary and banking system ... EVERYTHING!For there to be any progress, for our country to start functioning again, for everyday citizens to have a voice in shaping the future they want for themselves and future generations,WE MUST ELECT A CONGRESS THAT TRULY REPRESENTS AND SERVES THE PEOPLE!

This book is a dramatic account of the making of a family of 'subversives' in Australia and the USSR during the Cold War. It also captures the texture of everyday life in Australia and Russia, with humour and insight. Importantly, it is much more than a tale of dreams and deceptions. It is an unflinching chronicle of love and courage in the face of concerted opposition by both the Menzies' authoritarian government of 'illiberal democracy' and the Soviet dictatorship. Above all, it is a story of idealism, illusions, resistance, and radicalisation. No other Australian family went through the extraordinary experiences detailed in this unconventional historical memoir.No Country for Idealists deals with how Abraham and Tania Frankel came to Australia from Russia and Poland, their active political and social life in Melbourne, being targeted by ASIO as subversives. They were interrogated by ASIO because of their association with Vladimir Petrov and other Soviet diplomats.The family's departure from Australia for the Soviet Union in 1956 was front-page news, but their arrival in the USSR shattered their ideals.Isolated in Kerch, Crimea, interrogated and arrested by Soviet authorities, the book is a vivid account of their experiences in Khrushchev's Russia and their seven-year-long struggle to reunite in Melbourne.It concludes with an account of how their lives unfold in Australia after their return.

This book offers a comparative perspective on the new wave of revolutions in the MENA region. Recently, a new wave of revolutions has swept the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, comparable in some respects to the events of the Arab Spring. Revolutionary events have significantly changed the political regimes in Sudan, Algeria and Mali, while Lebanon and Iraq have also witnessed serious revolutionary episodes. Further, a new quality of protests has manifested in Iran, Egypt, Morocco and Jordan.   Presenting a variety of country studies, this book identifies similarities and differences between the events of the Arab Spring and the current upheavals in the MENA region and examines their causes and world-system context. It also analyzes the motivating forces, goals and organizational forms of the protesters and other actors involved, as well as the political and economic consequences of these revolutionary events. Moreover, it seeks to understand why some countries that were actively involved in the Arab Spring have remained largely unaffected by these developments. The book appeals to scholars of political science with a focus on comparative politics, Middle Eastern politics and political sociology.

Electoral reform should take place in two directions: the technical reform of electoral rules was easier and the reform of the electoral system, while this reform is more difficult to happen, that is, the reform of the electoral system. The reform of the electoral system in semi-majority would have a positive effect on the efficiency of government in the state and in strengthening responsibility. Conditional voting should be removed, it is completely unnecessary, as well as voting by mail should be removed, and replaced by voting in the embassies of the state of Kosovo. Dissatisfied with the work of governments for a while long time in Kosovo has influenced the decrease in participation in elections among citizens, but in 2021 there were more participants, about 47%. The reasons for the increase in the electorate for going to the elections came as a result of a long period of government degradation in the state of Kosovo by the political parties LDK, PDK, AAKAKR, but even now that a new political entity VV has come to power, it has also started disappointment grows in Kosovo, due to the many problems that burden the state from economic, social to education and justice.