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The silenced majority : stories of uprisings, occupations, resistance, and hope

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    Running Time: 13:45 hrs
    Narrator: David van der Molen
    Publisher:
    BC Libraries Cooperative, 2018
    Note: This book was recorded thanks to support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.

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  • Author: Goodman, Amy
    Contributor: Moynihan, Denis
    Date:
    Created
    2012
    Summary:

    The Silenced Majority pulls back the veil of corporate media reporting to dig deep into the politics of "climate apartheid," the implications of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, the movement to halt the execution of Troy Anthony Davis, and the globalization of dissent "From Tahrir Square to Liberty Plaza." Throughout Goodman and Moynihan show the power of ordinary people to change their media-and change the world.

    Contents:
    • Obama's wars: a tragedy in three acts. Act I: the wars abroad ; Act II: the war on veterans and soldiers ; Act 3: the war on the public treasury
    • Money in politics
    • Climate change
    • Dirty energy
    • Race, racism, and the myth of post-racial America
    • Capital punishment: the machinery of death
    • Wikileaks and the crackdown on dissent
    • Uprisings: from the Arab spring to occupy Wall Street
    • When corporations rule
    • Undoing the coups, from Haiti to Honduras
    • More news from the unreported world
    • Luminaries
    • Stop the violence.
    Genre:
    Political science, Social science, History and geography
    Subject(s): 21st century | History | Journalism | Mass media | Political activists | Political aspects | Social movements
    Original Publisher: Chicago, Haymarket Books
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 9781608462315, 1608462315