[PDF] Fight For Power eBook

Author : Eric Walters
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 43,68 MB
Release : 2015-01-20
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 0374301808

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After sixty-six days of a catastrophic global blackout, life in the suburbs is not what it used to be for Adam and his fortified neighborhood of Eden Mills. Although an explosive clash has minimized one threat from outside the walls, Adam's battle-hardened mentor, Herb, continues to make decisions in the name of security that are increasingly wrenching and questionable. Like his police chief mom and others, Adam will follow Herb's lead. But when the next threat comes from an unexpected direction, nobody is ready for it. And someone is going to pay the price—because of Adam's mistakes and mistaken trust.

Author : Clarence Taylor
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 17,76 MB
Release : 2018-12-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1479862452

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A story of resistance, power and politics as revealed through New York City’s complex history of police brutality The 2014 killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri was the catalyst for a national conversation about race, policing, and injustice. The subsequent killings of other black (often unarmed) citizens led to a surge of media coverage which in turn led to protests and clashes between the police and local residents that were reminiscent of the unrest of the 1960s. Fight the Power examines the explosive history of police brutality in New York City and the black community’s long struggle to resist it. Taylor brings this story to life by exploring the institutions and the people that waged campaigns to end the mistreatment of people of color at the hands of the police, including the black church, the black press, black communists and civil rights activists. Ranging from the 1940s to the mayoralty of Bill de Blasio, Taylor describes the significant strides made in curbing police power in New York City, describing the grassroots street campaigns as well as the accomplishments achieved in the political arena and in the city’s courtrooms. Taylor challenges the belief that police reform is born out of improved relations between communities and the authorities arguing that the only real solution is radically reducing the police domination of New York’s black citizens.

Author : Chuck D
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 43,19 MB
Release : 2010-08-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1847676227

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Chuck D, the creative force behind Public Enemy and one of the most outspoken rappers in the history of music, discusses his views on everything from rap and race to the problems with politics in society today.

Author : Gregory S. Parks
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 23,95 MB
Release : 2022-02-03
Category : Law
ISBN : 131651997X

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Fight the Power considers timely social justice issues for Black people in America through the lens hip-hop lyrics.

Author : Wolfgang Kaleck
Publisher :
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 20,45 MB
Release : 2018-11
Category : Human rights
ISBN : 9781682191736

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The author, founder and General Secretary of the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR), chronicles work and related events surrounding campaigns against several perpetrators of human rights violations around the world.

Author : Gordon K. Mantler
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 42,53 MB
Release : 2013-02-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1469608065

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The Poor People's Campaign of 1968 has long been overshadowed by the assassination of its architect, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and the political turmoil of that year. In a major reinterpretation of civil rights and Chicano movement history, Gordon K. Mantler demonstrates how King's unfinished crusade became the era's most high-profile attempt at multiracial collaboration and sheds light on the interdependent relationship between racial identity and political coalition among African Americans and Mexican Americans. Mantler argues that while the fight against poverty held great potential for black-brown cooperation, such efforts also exposed the complex dynamics between the nation's two largest minority groups. Drawing on oral histories, archives, periodicals, and FBI surveillance files, Mantler paints a rich portrait of the campaign and the larger antipoverty work from which it emerged, including the labor activism of Cesar Chavez, opposition of Black and Chicano Power to state violence in Chicago and Denver, and advocacy for Mexican American land-grant rights in New Mexico. Ultimately, Mantler challenges readers to rethink the multiracial history of the long civil rights movement and the difficulty of sustaining political coalitions.

Author : Lynne Eisaguirre
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 50,16 MB
Release : 2017-08-07
Category :
ISBN : 9781974051601

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The Power of a Good FightBy Lynne Eisaguirre

Author : Eric Walters
Publisher :
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 27,81 MB
Release : 2016-01-19
Category :
ISBN : 9781484463444

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After sixty-six days of a catastrophic global blackout, life in the suburbs is not what it used to be for Adam and his fortified neighborhood of Eden Mills. Although an explosive clash has minimized one threat from outside the walls, Adam's battle-ha

Author : Eric Walters
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 30,42 MB
Release : 2014-01-21
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0374355029

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A gripping adventure about what happens in the first hours, days, and weeks after the world goes dark

Author : John Yoo
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 19,58 MB
Release : 2020-07-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 125026961X

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In Defender in Chief, celebrated constitutional scholar John Yoo makes a provocative case against Donald Trump's alleged disruption of constitutional rules and norms. Donald Trump isn't shredding the Constitution—he's its greatest defender. Ask any liberal—and many moderate conservatives—and they'll tell you that Donald Trump is a threat to the rule of law and the U.S. Constitution. Mainstream media outlets have reported fresh examples of alleged executive overreach or authoritarian White House decisions nearly every day of his presidency. In the 2020 primaries, the candidates have rushed to accuse Trump of destroying our democracy and jeopardizing our nation's very existence. Yoo argues that this charge has things exactly backwards. Far from considering Trump an inherent threat to our nation's founding principles, Yoo convincingly argues that Washington, Jefferson, Madison and Hamilton would have seen Trump as returning to their vision of presidential power, even at his most controversial. It is instead liberal opponents who would overthrow existing constitutional understanding in order to unseat Trump, but in getting their man would inflict permanent damage on the office of the presidency, the most important office in our constitutional system and the world. This provocative and engaging work is a compelling defense of an embattled president's ideas and actions.