Liu lays out the elements and the strategies of citizen power, showing when to create a hashtag, when to call your Congressman, and when to take to the streets. (When you go, don't forget your camera.) Above all, Liu reminds us that...
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Auteur:Mulder, MichelleSommaire:Yeny and her family have escaped from the violence in their mountain village in Colombia to live in the city. But danger remains all around her — from groups of armed men who have kidnapped her uncle to a scary bully at school. Yeny...
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Auteur:Buttigieg, PeteSommaire:Pete Buttigieg demonstrates how a breakdown of trust is central to our nation's current predicament—and how our future depends on finding ways to instill confidence in the American project, and in each other. Trust is the...
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Chris Liddell-Westefeld and dozens of other staff and volunteers dedicated every ounce of their time, intelligence, and limited resources to helping elect Obama, as what started in Iowa spread nationwide. Drawn from more than 200...
- Auteur:LaDuke, WinonaSommaire:
Winona LaDuke's Chronicles is a collection of stories of Indigenous communities from the Canadian subarctic to the heart of Dine Bii Kaya, Navajo Nation. Stories range from visits with Desmond Tutu, front line Indigenous leaders,...
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Auteur:Steele, GrahamSommaire:Effective citizens--engaged, knowledgeable, and persistent, and united in common cause--are the most powerful force that ever was, or ever will be. I hope this book will help citizens to be more effective. In his uniquely...
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Auteur:Schlesinger, Andrea BatistaSommaire:The spirit of inquiry is the engine of democracy. The democratic process is nothing less than citizens regularly asking what kind of society they want to live in and whom they want to lead them. But more and more people are avoiding the...
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Auteur:Stein, Janice GrossSommaire:We live in an age dominated by the cult of efficiency. Efficiency in the raging debate about public goods is often used as a code word to advance political agendas. When it is used correctly, efficiency is important: it must always be...
- Auteur:Nanos, NikSommaire:
Democracy is becoming a toxic environment, rife with trolls, bots, fake news and computational propaganda. Why, and what can be done? In this highly informative, engaging and readable book, Canada's lead pollster and data expert...
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Auteur:Barker, Jonathan, Cwikowski, Anne-Marie, Gombay, Christie, Isbester, Katherine, Shettima, Kole, Sundar, AparnaSommaire:Using colourful and detailed case material, Street-Level Democracy introduces a new method of researching everyday politics. It is a wide-ranging book that traces the conflicts between global power and local action. People in farming...
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Auteur:Paehlke, RobertSommaire:Some Like It Cold plunges headlong into the political conundrum of Canada's climate change debate. Focusing on the past responses of both Liberal and Conservative governments to the looming crisis - ranging from negligence to...
- Auteur:Jones, VanSommaire:
President Obama's former Green Jobs czar discusses his time in governemnt and sets forth his own manifesto for restoring the American Dream on behalf of all working Americans, with proposals for creating jobs and equal economic...
- Auteur:Ternette, NickSommaire:
Rebel Without A Pause is the autobiography of Winnipeg’s best-known and most persistent political activist, Nick Ternette. For over forty years, Nick was one of the loudest voices of the Left, who ran for mayor many times and never...
- Auteur:Tolokonnikova, NadezhdaSommaire:
Nadya was arrested in 2012 for performing an anti-Putin protest song in a Moscow church. After eighteen months in a Russian prison, she emerged as an international symbol of radical resistance. Now the face of modern protest is wearing...
- Auteur:Stephenson, Laura B., Lawlor, Andrea, Cross, William P., Blais, AndréSommaire:
In parliamentary systems like Canada, voters directly contribute to the election outcome only in their own riding. However, the focus of election campaigns is often national, emphasizing the leader rather than the local candidate, and...
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Auteur:Ramos, Howard, Rodgers, KathleenSommaire:The Tea Party. The Occupy Movement. Idle No More. Around the world, popular social movements are challenging the status quo. Yet most democracies are seeing a decline in voter turnout. Protest and Politics examines this shift in...
- Auteur:Choudry, Aziz, Hanley, Jill, Shragge, EricSommaire:
How do we organize for progressive social change in an era of unprecedented economic, social, and ecological crises? How do political activists build power and critical analysis into their daily work for change? Grounded in struggles in...
- Auteur:Klein, NaomiSommaire:
Remember when it all seemed to be getting better? Before Trump happened? What went wrong, and what can we do about it? Naomi Klein - scourge of brand bullies, disaster capitalists and climate liars - shows us how we got to this surreal...
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Auteur:May, ElizabethSommaire:A ringing manifesto for change from Canada's Green Party leader and Activist. We Canadians are waking up from our long political slumber to realize that there will not be change unless we insist upon it. We have a presidential-style...
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Auteur:Lucht, BernieSommaire:An electrifying collection of thought-provoking interviews from recent broadcasts of CBC Radio’s Ideas. In these remarkable dialogues— most of them in the company of Ideas host Paul Kennedy — some of the great intellectuals of our time...
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