Politisk aktivisme

"Strategies for abolition and liberation from four activist groups of the modern civil rights movement"--

This book examines the issues of ensuring anti-terrorist security of an aviation enterprise, provides a history of terrorism in the aviation sector, and analyzes the legal regulations. This book provides mathematical and mathematical-psychological models for reducing the risk of terrorist threats, which makes it possible to objectively increase the safety of air transport facilities, reduce the likelihood of terrorist attacks, save human lives and prevent significant material losses. The solutions of general humanistic problems proposed in the book-preventing accidents and preserving the world-are an original feature of the book, which allows one to treat it with the necessary attention and interest for the reader. The concept of anti-terrorist security of an aviation enterprise presented in this book has been widely tested and introduced into the activities of leading aviation enterprises, including the Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC), and has been used in the investigation of aviation accidents.This book is written for a wide range of audience associated with ensuring aviation transport security and for the end users of airlines-passengers, in order to expand their knowledge about the reliability of using air transport. 

"Any serious effort to understand how the Black civil rights generation found role models, vision, and inspiration during their midcentury struggle for political power must place Bethune at its heart. Her success was unlikely: the 15th of 17 children and the first born into freedom, Bethune survived brutal poverty and caste subordination to become the first in her family to learn to read and to attend college. She gave that same gift to others when in 1904, at age 29, Bethune welcomed her first class of five girls to the Daytona, Florida, school she herself had founded. In short order, the school enrolled hundreds of children and eventually would become the university that bears her name to this day. Bethune saw education as an essential dimension of the larger struggle for freedom, vitally connected to the vote and to economic self-sufficiency. ... [The author] grew up in Florida, in Bethune's shadow: her grandparents trained to be teachers at Bethune-Cookman University, and her family vacationed at the all-Black beach that Bethune helped found in one of her many entrepreneurial projects for the community. The story of how--in a state with some of the highest lynching rates in the country--Bethune carved out so much space, and how she catapulted from there onto the national stage, is, in Rooks' hands, a moving ... example of the power of a will and a vision that had few equals"--

Det var, da kunstneren Maria Torp malede en afghansk kvinde neddyppet i blæk som symbol på kvinders ret til at stemme, at hun for første gang mærkede det meningsfulde i at bruge sin kunst til at italesætte en sag. Emnet kvinders liv og rettigheder gav genklang, og det blev starten på projektet Shaping a Pattern, en samling portrætter af mennesker, som dagligt lægger deres sjæl i kampen for at forbedre ligestilling mellem kønnene – og for hvem det lykkes.I bogen beskriver Maria Torp sit enestående arbejde med at researche og udvælge ildsjælene, om rejserne og møderne i hele verden og om de meget forskellige processer frem til de færdige værker. Trods de alvorlige emner, der behandles – blandt andet vold mod kvinder, omskæring, barnebrude og retten til fri abort – er projektet en livsbekræftende fortælling om håb og mennesker, der gør en forskel.Bogen er blevet til i anledning af, at kunstmuseet Trapholt udstiller de tolv personlige, nærværende og stærke MEGA-portrætter sammen med elementer fra den syv år lange proces i form af fotos, skitser, noter og film.

She's the humanitarian compared to Mother Teresa, hailed as the "Hong Kong Angel," and beloved by her community in Humboldt County. She miraculously survived the worst of brutalities to become a beacon for humanity and an inspiration for all. Meet Betty Kwan Chinn.

This book presents a snapshot of a major challenge, and shares subjective views on various areas of conflict in Africa and the diverse - theoretical and practical - efforts to achieve peace. Following an essential review of several real-world conflict contexts on the African continent and attempts to come to terms with them critically as a first step, the book explores the lessons learned to date with regard to peace studies in Africa.

Olgen Williams traces his dramatic journey from embittered, drug-using Vietnam veteran tonationally acclaimed neighborhood activist and deputy mayor of Indianapolis, Indiana. His suddenmiraculous orientation from drugs and despair to faith and freedom will inspire all thoseconcerned with the social and personal costs and consequences of illegal drugs anddrug-related crime. In December 2002, for his crime of having stolen less than eleven dollarswhile serving as a postal worker in 1971, Olgen Williams received one of seven pardonsgranted by President George W. Bush. Today, Olgen Williams is firmly grounded in family,faith, and neighborhood in Indianapolis, Indiana, where he served for thirteen years as directorof Christamore House, a community center in the settlement house tradition. He haspioneered and nurtured many programs--ranging from carpentry to theater, from communitypolicing to parenting and seniors programming--that serve the diverse needs of a multiethnic inner-city neighborhood. His book is not only the story of an extraordinary life-in-progress but alsoa working handbook for neighborhood activism and transformation.

В России около тысячи политических заключенных. Этих отважных людей лишили права жить и действовать на свободе.Но оказалось, что их невозможно лишить ни внутренней свободы, ни права высказывать собственное мнение. Их голоса - самые свободные голоса внутри сегодняшней России. Они звучат из залов судов, в письмах, блогах, социальных сетях. Им не страшна цензура. И точно так же, как мы перечитываем письма и речи советских политзаключенных, следующие поколения будут перечитывать слова узников российского режима.В этой книге представлены письма, интервью, посты и выступления Ильи Яшина - политика в стране, где не осталось политики.

Many in the Republic of Korea (ROK) are not feeling assured by the U.S. nuclear umbrella. The authors propose options for strengthening that assurance, including enhancing strategic clarity and committing U.S. nuclear weapons to support the ROK.

Senior Department of the Air Force leadership is increasingly concerned that the current readiness assessment system is not providing sufficient insight into the capability of the force to meet future mission requirements because of the shortcomings of outcome measurements. Concurrently, the U.S. Air Force is evolving its training infrastructure in response to the prospect of operations in contested and denied environments, an increased pace of warfare, and the potential loss of superiority across multiple domains in a conflict with near-peer adversaries. Advances in the technological capabilities of training infrastructure can help fill gaps in current readiness assessments to provide senior leaders with better insight into the readiness of the force for future contingencies. To understand how such investments might do so, the authors used a multimethod approach that featured interviews with senior leaders in Air Force major commands and technical experts and included reviews of readiness reporting data and technical documentation. The report identifies current readiness assessment gaps and explores ways to address them through investments in training assets. One finding was that legacy metrics tend to focus on individual units, but the force must be able to integrate well to conduct the full spectrum of possible operations against a near-peer adversary. This requires adjusting training and how readiness is measured to assess how personnel from different units function as teams at various levels.

RAND researchers assess the knowledge, tools, and capabilities needed by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) acquisition workforce to infuse environmental considerations into DoD requirements, acquisition, and resource allocation decisionmaking.

The rebellious life of a novelist, screenwriter and revolutionary activist

How Forward Air Controllers and Close Air Support fundamentally changed the American war machine in the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq.

Available Open Access digitally under CC-BY-ND licence This book pulls back the curtain on the link between activism, media and technology in the quiet times of politics when people are not protesting. Introducing the novel concept of the 'data stream', it explores the intricate ways in which activists interact daily with various types of data and how they navigate the impact of digitalization and datafication on today's grassroots politics. Through rich, empirical data from Greece, Spain and Italy, Activists in the Data Stream makes a nuanced contribution to our understanding of activists' daily political engagement in an ever-changing media and political landscape.

A heartrending and beautiful trilingual book that gives voice to the children of war-torn Ukraine, interspersed with moving works of art. What is it like to be a child living in a country under siege-or living in a foreign city or land far from everything you have known and loved? In this moving and unforgettable book, Ukraine's children speak out about growing up in amid the violence, terror, and death of war. Through the Eyes of Children is a collection of children's quotes paired with evocative color artwork. Each quote appears in Cyrillic, transliterated Ukrainian, and English, making the book a tool for both language learning and language preservation. Each copy sold funds a week's mental health assistance for a Ukrainian child.

The popular Washington Post contributing opinion columnist challenges readers to have uncomfortable conversations about race, drawing on the first-person perspectives of the author and Americans from diverse viewpoints and walks of life."The United States claims to be a nation founded on an idea," writes Theodore R. Johnson, "but Americans--even though we nod our heads to that assertion--do not agree on what that idea is, what it should do, or who it is for." The reality is that America is facing an existential quandary. Its citizens do not share a common vision for a democratic system in action, and even worse, do not share a common vision for what the country should be. We use the same words, but do not speak the same language.If We Are Brave is a keen-eyed and sobering examination of this rift and how race exposes and challenges traditional conceptions of national identity, national mythology, and American democracy. It is both a cultural exploration and a consideration of the American experiment through the eyes and experiences of Americans of different generations that cuts across race, ethnicity, gender, region, religion, and class. Johnson reveals the subtle ways that racialized conceptions of the American identity and the imperfect culture of democracy have hindered our ability to connect with one another, carefully piecing together first-person accounts ranging from a Rust Belt diner to the back of a police car to a jail cell.A beautiful but harsh indictment of a nation that aspires to be a more perfect union yet has consistently and painfully fallen short, If We Were Brave is a portrait of a nation at the precipice. It is an eye-opening, essential resource in a pivotal election year which will define America's future, and a much-needed beacon of truth that sheds a bright light on who we are.

"There are many women like Belén whose names we don't know, but whose stories are just as important. An uplifting chronicle of one woman's fight for justice."--Kirkus Reviews (starred review)Foreword by Margaret AtwoodThe heartbreaking true story of an Argentinian woman imprisoned for having a miscarriage--an injustice that galvanized a feminist movement and became a global rallying cry in the fight for reproductive rights.In 2014, Belén, a twenty-five-year-old woman living in rural Argentina, went to the hospital for a stomachache--and soon found herself in prison. While at the hospital she had a miscarriage--without knowing she was pregnant. Because of the nation's repressive laws surrounding abortion and reproductive rights, the doctors were forced to report her to the authorities. Despite her protestations, Belén was convicted and sentenced to two years for homicide.Belén's imprisonment is a glaring example of how women's health care has become increasingly criminalized, putting the most vulnerable--BIPOC, rural, and low-income--women at greater risk of prosecution. Belén's cause became the centerpiece of a movement to achieve greater protections for all women. After two failed attempts to clear her name, Belén met feminist lawyer Soledad Deza, who quickly rallied Amnesty International and ignited an international feminist movement around #niunamas--not one more--symbolized by thousands of demonstrators around the globe donning white masks, the same kind of mask Belén wore when leaving prison. The #niunamas movement was instrumental in pressuring Argentine president Alberto Fernández to decriminalize abortion in 2021. In this gripping and personal account of the case and its impact on local law, Ana Correa, one of Argentina's leading journalists and activists, makes clear that what happened to Belén could happen to any woman--and that we all have the power to raise our collective voices and demand change.Translated by Julia Sanches

"A galvanizing history of abortion recentering people of color to put forth a timely argument that we must liberate abortion for all"--

A riveting behind-the-scenes account of the new stars of the far right-and how they've partnered with billionaire donors, idealogues, and political insiders to build the most powerful youth movement the American right has ever seen In the wake of the Obama presidency, a group of young charismatic conservatives catapulted onto the American political and cultural scenes, eager to thwart nationwide pushes for greater equity and inclusion. They dreamed of a cultural revolution-online and off-that would offer a forceful alternative to the progressive politics that were dominating American college campuses. In Raising Them Right, a gripping, character-driven read and investigative tour de force, Kyle Spencer chronicles the people and organizations working to lure millions of unsuspecting young American voters into the far-right fold-revealing their highly successful efforts to harness social media in alarming ways and capitalize on the democratization of celebrity culture. These power-hungry new faces may look and sound like antiestablishment renegades, but they are actually part of a tightly organized and heavily funded ultraconservative initiative to transform American youth culture and popularize fringe ideas. There is Charlie Kirk, the swashbuckling Trump insider and founder of the right-wing youth activist group Turning Point USA, who dreams of taking back the country's soul from weak-kneed liberals and becoming a national powerbroker in his own right. There is the acid-tongued Candace Owens, a Black ultraconservative talk-show host and Fox News regular who is seeking to bring Black America to the GOP and her own celebritydom into the national forefront. And then there is the young, rough-and-tumble libertarian Cliff Maloney, who built the Koch-affiliated organization Young Americans for Liberty into a political force to be reckoned with, while solidifying his own power and pull inside conservative circles. Chock-full of original reporting and unprecedented access, Raising Them Right is a striking prism through which to view the extraordinary shifts that have taken place in the American political sphere over the last decade. It establishes Kyle Spencer as the premier authority on a new generation of young conservative communicators who are merging politics and pop culture, social media and social lives, to bring cruel economic philosophies, skeletal government, and dangerous antidemocratic ideals into the mainstream. Theirs is a crusade that is just beginning.

"Inside the Threat" offers a harrowing exploration into the world of radiological weapons, commonly referred to as "dirty bombs," and the tireless efforts of homeland security agencies to prevent their detonation on civilian soil. Merging investigative journalism with in-depth research, the book uncovers the complex dynamics of this relatively underdiscussed weapon in the arsenal of modern terrorism.Key insights include:The Anatomy of a Dirty Bomb: A comprehensive breakdown of what constitutes a dirty bomb, how it differs from a nuclear bomb, and the potential aftermath of its detonation.Origins and Evolution: Tracing the inception of the dirty bomb concept, its evolution over time, and the increasing allure it holds for various extremist groups.Supply Chains and Black Markets: A deep dive into the illicit networks that provide the materials for these devices, revealing the global intricacies of nuclear smuggling.Case Studies: Real-world instances where security agencies have intercepted attempts to assemble or deploy dirty bombs, complete with behind-the-scenes accounts of these high-stakes operations.Defensive Strategies: An exploration into the myriad techniques and tools employed by homeland security agencies worldwide to detect, prevent, and respond to potential dirty bomb threats.Psychological Warfare: Delving into the primary objective behind deploying a dirty bomb-the widespread panic and societal disruption it can cause, even if the actual physical harm is limited.Global Collaborations: How nations are coming together, sharing intelligence, and building joint counter-terrorism initiatives to address the dirty bomb menace.Future Projections: Assessing the future risks associated with dirty bombs, technological advancements in their making, and innovations in their detection and neutralization."Inside the Threat" is not just an exposition of a looming danger but also a testament to the undying spirit of defense agencies working against the clock. Through gripping narratives, detailed analysis, and interviews with experts, this book paints a chilling yet enlightening picture of a weapon that thrives on fear and the global effort to ensure it remains a threat never realized.

Are you ready to embark on a transformative journey through the untold stories of remarkable women leaders who defied societal norms and ignited a movement for women's rights? These women and girls came from the most disadvantaged groups in society yet defied the most powerful captains of industry. It's time to reclaim their narratives and celebrate their achievements. Within these pages, you will delve into the lives of extraordinary activists who fearlessly fought for the rights of women in the workforce, from the Industrial Revolution to the Progressive Era, forever changing the course of history. Step into the shoes of the Match Girls, the Mill Girls, and countless other fiery females. Through their triumphs and setbacks, you will gain profound insights into the heartrending realities these brave women encountered on their path to liberation. Inside Blazing the Way, you will: Uncover the untold stories of courageous women who dared to challenge the status quo.Understand the historical context surrounding their labor strikes and their profound impact on women's rights.Gain a deeper appreciation for the sacrifices and determination exhibited by these unsung heroines.Draw inspiration from their indomitable spirit and channel it into your own journey toward empowerment.Recognize the lasting influence of these women's movements and their significance in shaping the world we live in today.Discover the true stories of spirited female activists whose strikes sparked a revolution in women's rights, driving change and fostering equality in the modern era. By celebrating the achievements of these remarkable women, Blazing the Way ignites the fire within you to challenge norms, break barriers, and be a catalyst for progress. Grab your copy today and ignite your own journey toward empowerment!

If one thing is true about humans, it's that we are complex creatures. Our thoughts, histories, and experiences create unique perspectives about the world and how we interact with each other. Yet, time and again, we reveal our collective tendency to react from a place of fear. Across the socio-political spectrum, our responses to troubling questions, differences and missteps are severe, causing us to dehumanize one another and deny each other our inherent complexity.With both thoughtful personal anecdotes and careful thinking about current historical events, Lucinda J. Garthwaite dives into the exercise of unashamed curiosity. The essays in Bumbling Humans return again and again to themes of compassion, restorative practice, and steady determination. Here readers will find hope, inspiration, and an invitation to align their day-to-day lives more closely with an increasingly thriving, just, and peaceful future.