Oversize personalities converge, to introduce or, for most readers, reintroduce subject and author. Howard Zinn. Yet Zinn’s work and life stand against what Trumpians seek to do to US history and today’s hardly-surviving democratic institutions.
Zayd Ayers Dohrn’s new book about his Weatherman parents, “Dangerous, Dirty, Violent and Young,” contends honestly with the political violence of the 1970s.
British courts have upheld the government’s proscription of Palestine Action and sentenced four of its activists as terrorists. A series of abuses of the legal process ensured these outcomes were all but predetermined.
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"More than any Lewis biography to date," writes reviewer Nathans-Kelly, this book "captures that life’s complex, magnificent, and underappreciated second act.”
The “greatest teacher of nonviolence in America” was a mentor to generations of activists, from Martin Luther King Jr. to today’s union organizers and immigrant rights campaigners.
In 47 essays written from the early 1970s to the late 1990s, prominent Second Wave feminists question how nonviolence might be applied to effectively transform violent systems of aggression, from rape to war.
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In Memphis, the existence of racial terror and trauma goes back as far as history can remember. Back to stolen lands of indigenous people and the stolen lives of African slaves. Back to deadly white race riots after the Civil War...
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